REPORT OF
HON. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor,
TOGETHER WITH THE
REPORTS OF THE CITY OFFICERS
OF THE -
CITY OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
December 31st, 1906.
To which are added (he Commercial Statistics of the Port, Reports
of Public Institutions, and Ordinances Passed During the Year
1906.
MAID A MUTTON SAVANNAH, CA.

MAYOR AND ALDERMEN FOB 1906.
Mayor.
HERMAN MYERS.
Chairman of Council.
JAMBS M. DIXON.
Vice-Chairman of Council.
R. J. DAVANT.
JAMES M. DIXON,
R. J. DAVANT,
E. A. 11. SCHROEDER,
JAMES H. MCEJENNA,
WM. L. GHAYSON,
JOHN P. FREEMAN,
Aldermen.
MURRAY McG. STEWART,
GEORGE L. HARMAN,
JOHN F. GLATIGNY,
W. H. WRIGHT,
F. M. OLIVER,
JOHN F. CANTY.

INDEX.
Assessments for City Taxation..-.--__.-__.-.._..__... 254
Bank Clearings at Savannah for Tsn Years........ ._ 240
Bonded Debt___.__................_____...___. 33-38
Budget for 1906.__-----__......__....._....--..-.- 9-10
Building Inspector......----.-_------..---_--.----------.. 42
Charity Hospital._________________........_..______ 214
City Attorney ...-..----.._.-._______-----___...._ 206-210
City Dispensary... .............. --.---.._ ..-- 182
City Engineer---------------.. _--..---______.. 129-152
City Marshal............................................. 39-41
City Officers ._..-...___.... .. _____ 7-8
City Physicians-..------..--------------.-.---_-....__._ 178-81
Climate of Savannah, 1871-1906-._-----__--_____.... 255
Commercial Statistics.--...____._.._..._-__....__ 239-256
Commissions, 1907_____..._.---.._-------__----- 5
Director of Public Works...____....._..-.--.. .-.__ 113-128
Electrical Inspector ------ ._.-____.._____. 83
Harbor Master _.__.___.-.-. . .. 205
Health Officer..--_.-_.........___..._________ 153-181
Laurel Grove Cemetery....... -......__------ .--.. 203
Market -_______--___----__________----- 204
Mayor's Address---.--..-.--------_____.._____ 13-32
Ordinances Passed in 1906. ... ----------- 259-373
Park and Tree Commission_------------ ------------- 185-202
Plumbing Inspsctor__-- --... --------- ..-----. 183
Public Library-___----------__..___.__._.____ 221-38
Recorder of Police Court--__--._-.----.--------------. 51-2
Resolutions Passed by Council, 1906.--..--..__. 373-402
Sinking Fund Commission.___...-__..---__---.__--__ 33-36
Standing Committees of Council----.---.-.------- ----- 6
Statement City of Savannah Bonds..-......-.... --- 37
St. Joseph's Hospital_.--._.. ------_------_....- 212-13
Superintendent Fire Alarm System.-____--..__--_.__ 84-88
Superintendent Fire Department----------- ----------- 55-82
Superintendent of Police.._..---__.-.-... .------..__ 45-50
Superintendent of Water Works.__......_______ 106-12
Tax Assessors...-__. ....._._...........___.__. 43-4
Treasurer's Report--.-.___--------_.___-.-..__ 89-105
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MATOB AND ALDERMEN FOR 1907.
Mayor,
GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN.
Chairman of Council,
R. J. DAVAKT.
Vice-Chairman of Council,
W. F.
Aldermen.
P. C. BATTEY,
R. J. DAVAXT,
J. H. H. EXTELMAX,
J. D. EPPS,
J. B. GAUDRY,
G. A. GORDON',
A. S. GUCKENHEIMER,
M. J. KAVANAUGH,
W. F. MCCAUIJSY,
J. F. PERRITT,
C. G. WILKINSON,
H. E. WILSON,
COMMISSIONS, 1907.
Park and Tree
P. D. BAFFIN, Chairman,
GEO. J. BALDWIN, CHAS. S. ELLIS,
J. H. H. ENTELMAN, I. A. SOLOMONS.
Sinking Fund
H. P. SMART, Chairman,
GEO. J. MILLS, Vice-Chairman, S. HERMAN,
CHAS. G. BELL, Secretary, JOHN LYONS.
Pilotage.
JAS. M. BARNARD, Chairman,
GEO. P. WALKER, W. W. WILLUMSON,
HENRY T. WILLIAMS, JOSEPH HULL,
J. FLORENCE MINIS, J. COOPER HARRIS, Secretary.
Massie School.
HON. GEORGE W. TEEDEMAN,
CAPT. B. J. DAVANT, DR. WALTER S. WILSON.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL, 1907.
AccountsAldermen BATTET, MCCAULEY, GORDON.
Assessments Aldermen GAUDRY, GORDON, MCCAULEY,
PERRITT, ENTELMAN.
City Lots and Opening StreetsAldermen ENTELMAN,
KAVANAUGH, BATTEY, MCCAULEY, GUCKENHEIMER.
DrainageAldermen WILSON, GAUDRY, DAVANT, EPPS,
WlLKIXSON.
Finance Aldermen MCCAULEY, ENTELMAN, GUCKENHEIMER, GORDON, KAVANAUGH.
FireAldermen DAVANT, GUCKENHEIMER, PERRITT, WILKINSON, "WILSON.
Harbor and WharvesAldermen PERRITT, EPPS, WILSON.
MarketAldermen KAVANAUGH, WILKINSON, WILSON.
PoliceAldermen GORDON, BATTEY, GAUDRY.
Public HealthAldermen EPPS, PERRITT, GAUDRY.
Streets and Lanes Aldermen GUCKENHEIMER, KAVANAUGH, DAVANT, ENTELMAN, BATTEY.
Water Aldermen WILKINSON, DAVANT, EPPS, GORDON,
WILSON.
Liquor LicenseAldermen GORDON, ENTELMAN, KAVANAUGH.
SANITARY BOABD.
HON. GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Chairman.
HEALTH OFFICER W. F. BRUNNER, Secretary.
ALDERMEN BATTEY, MCCAULEY.
CITIZENS J. M. SOLOMONS, REV. W. C. SCHAFFER, COL.
BEEBNE GORDON.
CITY OFFICERS, 1907.
Mayor___________________GEOBGE W. TDBDEMAN
Secretary to the Mayor_________NEYLE COLQUITT
Clerk of Council_________________N. P. COBISH
Assistant Clerk of Council________CHAS. V. HEBNANDEZ
Chief of Police___________________W. G. AUSTIN
1st Lieutenant of Police______________S. N. HABBIS
2d Lieutenant of Police._____.JOSEPH McCooL
City Treasurer-________________C. S. HABDEE
City Engineer^_______3. W. HOWABD
City Engineer (Assistant)________W. O'D. ROCKWELL
City Attorney-__________________S. B. ADAMS
City Marshal.____FBED WESSELS, JB.
Deputy City Marshal_____________WILKIE BBOWN
City Physicians (2 white)_LAWBENCE TIKE and J. V. MABTIN
City Physicians (2 colored) ___ J. H. BUQQ and P. E. LOVE
Clerk of the Market_____________G. TBOTJP DTJNHAM
Clerk of the Market (Assistant) _________T. B. GBACEN
Director of Public Works___________HABBY WILLINK
Harbor Master._____.______________JOHN CABB
Health Officer_________________W. F. BBUNNEB
Chief Sanitary Inspector__________HENBY G. GBEENE
Food Inspector_________________SIMON A. WEIL
Inspectors of Naval StoresLEWIS BLISS, B. B. JEWETT,
W. B. POWELL, J. E. BEGISTEB, J. C. BEGISTEB, J. F. BLISS,
JAS. T. WELLS AND NAT HABBISON.
Inspector of Buildings_______________ H. BABTLETT
Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetery_______A. B. LA BOCHE
Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetery (colored) ____HENBY WILLIS
Keeper City Dispensary____________F. B. DUBHAM
Assistant Keeper Dispensary ___________ J. D. HABMS
CITY OFFICERS, 1907Continued.
Messenger of Council___________CHABLES A. GRADOT
Port Warden__________________W. H. SPENCEB
Plumbing Inspector__________________A. ROBIPER
Recorder________________JOHN E. SCHWARZ
Superintendent Scavenger Department_:_ THOMAS GOOLEY
Superintendent Fire Department___THOMAS BALLANTYNE
Assistant^atpirjntendent Fire Department_J. J. CONNAU/Y
Superintendent and Engineer "Waterworks_-___J. P. FIGG
Tax Assessors, Chairman_____________H. S. DBEESE
Tax Assessors (Two) ____A. B. PALMER AND J. M. DRETEK
Custodian City Hall_____________R. "W. FERQUSON
BUDGET FOR 1907.
Ordinance read Jn Council for the first time December 5, 1906,
read a second time December 29, 1906, amended, placed upon its
passage and passed.
By Committee of the Whole:
BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 1907.
Fixed Expenses for 1907.
Interest on Bonded Debt... _... _. _...__.$146,000 00
Sinking Fund.......__..._--._..__._...-..... 46,500 00
$192,500 00
Maintenance of Regular City Departments.
Departments Appropriation
Board of Health-____$ 19,500 00
Charity, including $50 a month for Salvation Army...... 9,100 00
City Clocks __________------ 300 t)0
City Hall, Maintenance and Insurance._ 8,500 00
City Lighting______________--______... 40,000 00
Dispensary __....__._ ....__..__.. 5,000 00
Drainage and Dry Culture___._______________ 10,000 00
Fire Department _______--_.____________.. 93,000 00
Fira Department, Uniforms-- 4,000 00
Harbor and Wharves...---------- -....._---._- 2,000 00
Harbor Improvement and Advertising, $2,000 of which is
committed to Georgia Building at Jhmestown
Exposition ____._ 3,000 00
Hospitals __..___.............. .._------_. 14^00 00
House Drainage_______________.._._.___ 4,000 00
Incidentals, including Office Charity.__ 6,500 00
Law Department, Incidentals__..__...___.. 600 00
Laurel Grove Cemstery.._ 6,500 00
Market ... ... ..-~~___-------..:--' 5,000 00
Parks and Squares- ... ...... 10,000 00
Police ___.._. ...___--_...... ..___ 100,000 00
Police Uniforms-__________.._..__ 3,800 00
Police Reserves.-... . 3,500 00
Printing and Stationery..__....__ 5,000 00
Public Library (White)___....__-_______... 4,200 00
Public Library (Colored)....__._________ 360 00
Plumbing Inspector.___------.----------____________ 2,400 00
Storm Sewers.._-....___-... 4,500 00
Salaries, including Aldermen...___.._____........ 47,680 00
Scavenger Department- .--... -.--.___- 40,000 00
Scavenger Department, Electric Railway Contract with
County -. -________ 4,500 00
Sink Department (O. E. M.)---_____----__------_ 5,500 00
Streets and Lanes._......___---....__-.-...--. 62,000 00
Streets, Maintenance of Asphalt ---. ............ 10,000 00
Streets, Resurfacing. . . 2,500 00
Waterworks, new, old, maintenance and extensions.._.. 50,000 00
$587,340 00
New Improvements to be Made in 1907, to be Passed on by Council
Before Expenditure.
Fire Department, Improvements-_. --.--__---.--__$ 2,500 00
Grading New Streets.. -. .__ 3,000 00
Improvement "Strand," east and west, concrete sidewalk,
avenue, around Forsyth and Park Extension. ... 5,000 00
Improvement of Myers, Dixon, Grayson, and Thomas
Parks, including tree planting, curbing and sidewalks 2,500 00
Opening streets, including deferred payments and interest on outstanding notes.---------------. ... 51,000 00
Paving streets-...--..-.---..._..-__.----------..--- 50,000 00
Preparing and Printing New Code. 3,800 00
Sidewalks of Concrete, Gaston, Whitaker and Park
avenue, around Forsyth and Park Extension...--- 5,000 00
Storm Sewer, East Broad, Broughton to River streets.... 2,500 00
Waterworks, new pump and expert's service at old waterworks - -- ----- 8,000 00
Tree planting (to be designated)----------------....--- 3,000 00
Baffin Athletic Field..-._... . ------- 5,000 00
Water meters -__.___-..________ 2,000 00
$143,300 00
Total Budget for Year 1907_____________$923,140 00
TENTH ANNUAL REPORT
-OF
HERMAN MYERS,
MAYOR
-OFSAVANNAH, GA,

TENTH ANNUAL REPORT
. OF
HERMAN MYERS,
Mayor of Savannah, Ga,
SAVANNAH, GA., January 2nd, 1907.
To THE BOARD OF ALDERMENGENTLEMEN:
Savannah has closed another prosperous year. During
1906 our general business interests shared fully in the widespread prosperity that gave to the United States probably
the most marvelous twelve months of commercial activity
in their history. In every department of trade our city
has been benefited by the excellent conditions which have
existed, and we closed 1906 fully abreast of all our competitors in the new vantage ground gained, in the stability
of our enterprises, and in the general spirit of progressiveness marking our business houses. The records of the commercial agencies show that our gain in the volume of business was, proportionate to that of any other city in our
class, and very much greater than that of some, while
failures were reduced to a minimum. New manufacturing
industries came during the year, promising early employment to a large number of hands, giving a broader and
more varied foundation for the future development of the
city.
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Expansion of the City.
Building operations were on a sufficiently extensive
scale, considering the greatly enhanced cost of material and
labor, to show the confidence of our people in their cit>,
as well as to demonstrate the need of more homes for the
increasing population. It is doubtful if any other Southern
city with a population below 100,000 is more compactly
built than Savannah, or more in need of a considerable
number of small homes for its citizens of moderate means.
The opening up of the new limits, by the extension of the
city's plan over it and the purchase of land for streets,
may bring about a decided and healthful improvement in
this respect, the lower value of lots there affording opportunity for the erection of moderate priced houses, with
gardens, that will meet a pressing need and ameliorate conditions in the more crowded sections down town.
Commient is often made that Savannah should have
enforced building laws that required more space about its
homes. While it is too late to consider such a matter now,
it is a gratification to know that there is an immense areu
recently taken within the city for development where better
conditions may be created as to space and air. The next
few years will undoubtedly see a great influx of people from
the older portions of the city into this new districtan
influx that will be materially increased by the present land
owners there meeting the city in an equitable spirit in its
endeavors to purchase land for highway and park purposes.
This new district, under the opinion of the City Attorney that taxation of it cannot lawfully be deferred, will
this year be placed upon the assessor's books and begin to
contribute toward the expenses of the municipal govern-
MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 15
ment. The assessment of its value will be, approximately,
$1,500,000, which will yield the city about $18,000 a year
a very small proportion of the amount the city must pay
yearly for some time for its improvement. It is always
the rule that new sections are developed at the expense of
the older sections and for some years constitute a direct
burden on the owners of property in the older districts.
Those who may be inclined to complain of the assessment
and taxation at this time of the territory brought within
the city limits by the Act of 1901, should bear in mind
that they are the direct beneficiaries of expenditures by
the city vastly in excess of any sum that will come into its
treasury from the municipality's additional territory. Justice to the taxpayers of other sections required that there
should be a fair assessment of the new territory and that
it should begin to bear at once a part of the expense its
continued improvement will entail on the entire municipality.
Broadening Our Park System.
In this district south of Fortieth street a number of
small parks are to be systematically located, which will
enhance its value as a residential section, and magnify
Savannah's reputation as a city of trees and open spaces.
It will remain for the ineomong administration to secure
ground and thus provide for this important addition to
our park system. This should be taken up at once. The
preliminary work has been done in the preparation of maps.
The present administration has, during 1906, more than
doubled the park area of the city, which, at the close of
1905 was seventy-one and a half acres, while today it is
one hundred and fifty-nine acres. We are still behind many
cities of our size and importance in the area devoted to
parks and amusement or recreation grounds for the people,
16 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
bnt it will doubtless continue the policy of the city government to swell the area devoted to such purposes by additional purchases and the continued improvement of the
grounds already secured. For the latter purpose some provision has been made in the budget for 1907. There are
no investments that can be made ol which future generati'ins will be so appreciative or which will reflect more
ciedit on the administration making them.
When I was first inducted into office as Mayor, in January, 1905, the park area of the city was fifty-six and fourtenths acres, including
Forsyth park _______________10.0 acres.
Forsyth extension ______^_____21.0 "
Twenty-five small squares at intersections of streets_____________21.8 "
Dasher park ________________00.2 "
Thomas park ________________ 2.2 "
Wells park _________________ 1.4 "
Under my administration the area of parks has been
almost trebled, the acquirements in that line being as follows:
Colonial park __ 6.60 acres.
Myers park _______________ 1.56 "
Cann park ________________ 2.18 "
Dixon park ________________ 1.29 "
Grayson park _____________ 1.75 "
Baffin athletic field ____________78.40 "
Emmet park ________________ 4.75 "
Park in Dixon ward (not named) ___ 2.17 "
Park in Graysou ward (not named)__ 2.78 "
Park in Watson ward (not named)__ 1.29 "
Total acquired in ten years_102.77 acres.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 17
Savannah's Position as to Park Area.
The last report of the United States government available, that of 1903, shows Savannah occupying as to park
area eighty-fifth place in a list of one hundred and seventyfive American cities of 25,000 population and upward. In
a list of forty-three cities with between 50,000 and 100,000
population Savannah stood in the twenty-fourth place in
park area, this city at that time having 72.4 acres. Inasmuch as in many other respects we occupied a so much
more prominent and satisfactory position in the government
statistical reports,.it is more than ever gratifying to me to
be able to report so large an addition by recent purchases
for park and recreation purposes. It is true that we have
simply secured the grounds at very reasonable prices, and
that considerable amounts must yet be expended in payments on them and in improvements tending to make them
parks in the generally understood sense. But the fact that
they have been definitely secured and dedicated guarantees
the public the use and benefit of them forever hereafter. If
the other cities reported in 1903 have not increased their
park area since then, which is hardly probable in this era
of highly cultivated public spirit, Savannah should now
occupy about the sixteenth position in the forty-three cities
of its class. Half of the cities in Savannah's class in 1903
had park areas of over 100 acres. Of these eight showed
park areas of between 100 and 200 acres, six between 200
and 300 acres, six between 300 and 600 acres, and one of
over 1,000 acres. I am not citing these facts as a justification for our action in buying land for park purposes^ Our
people are too intelligent and too much devoted to Savannah's welfare to need any excuses from the municipal government for a forward step of this nature. I am setting
them forth merely that our people may realize that we are
18 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
still far behind a large number of American cities in this
respect and to strengthen the hands of our successors in
any steps they may make in this direction. While I would
not appear to presume to dictate any policy for those into
whose hands the city government is soon to be placed, yet,
as a citizen deeply interested in the future of Savannah,
I may express the hope that conditions will favor further
purchases of land for parks and the speedy adornment of
the several areas bought but not yet improved.
In my last report to you I laid stress on the fact that
the time had now come in the history of the municipal government when its finances were in such a gratifying condition that it could afford to devote more money to the
beautifying of the city. Our purchases for parks this year
were in accordance with that sentiment. It is probably
needless for me to repeat that such expenditures will yield
a heavy profit hereafter, not only in the pleasure they will
afford our own citizens, but by drawing visitors and home
seekers to Savannah. The vast increase of wealth throughout the country has placed many thousands of men in the
position where they can select their homes with a view to
securing surroundings of beauty, as well as the other advantages that flow from life in a city of progressive ideas.
We already offer many inducements to these people, such
as our delightful climate, our excellent public school system, augmented by private schools of a high type, the finest
paved streets and county roads in the South, and our proximity to the ocean and salt rivers, which affords opportunity
for health giving pleasure that few cities enjoy. When we
add to these a government in position to adorn the city
with trees and flowers and squares and provide open spaces
for athletic recreation, we have undoubtedly the opportunity to create the ideal city, such as Savannah is eminently
fitted to be. Our purchase of the old fair ground tract was
with this in mind. Other citjeg we find broadening their
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 19
conception of a municipality's duty to its people, liave gone
beyond the idea of simply providing breathing spaces filled
with trees and grass, the latter not to be trodden upon, and
are now setting aside large tracts where games of various
kinds can be enjoyed by those who otherwise might have
little or no opportunity to engage in them. The sphere of
a city government is now held to embrace the furnishing
of means of recreation for its people. Savannah has taken
the first step in this direction in the purchase of the failground tract. The next step is to develop that tract, embracing over seventy-eight acres, in such a way that the
public to whom it belongs will be enabled to derive a maximum of enjoyment from its possession. Another similar
athletic field, or recreation ground, as such public resorts
are known in the North and West, might well be secured in
the newly extended limits by the incoming administration.
In a measure the park extension furnishes such a place for
the more central portions of the city. Open spaces of this
character will do much for the development of our children
into men and women with vigorous bodies and strong minds.
They can be made the physical training schools of the
community. At the same time they will furnish a vent for
the superabundance of energy common to the young and
keep them in the path of clean, manly, healthful pursuits.
They can undoubtedly be miade a decided factor in the
moral as well as in the physical life of the community.
Savannah, the "City Beautiful."
I have "regretted that during the ten years it has been
my honor to serve Savannah as its Mayor our financial
condition was not such that we could make larger appropriations for the Betting out of trees and otherwise adorning our streets and public places. Many of our thoroughfares are almost bare of trees and unsightly. The pressure
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of demand for improvements of a different nature, such as
street paving, street opening, house drainage, new public
buildings, etc., made it impossible for us to do more than
maintain the parks and trees department in a subordinate
way. The time is at hand, though, when the city government can pursue, in my opinion, a more liberal policy toward that important branch. It is a source of great satisfaction to me that in severing my long connection with
municipal affairs I can do so with the knowledge that such
a condition obtains, that it has been granted to this administration to build the hall, make many other permanent
and much needed improvements, and turn the municipality
over to its successors in a shape where heavier outlays for
the beautifying of Savannah are easily possible. I am
firmly of the opinion that during the next ten years ample
appropriations can be made so that no residence street in
Savannah but will then present its unbroken rows of magnificent shade trees, adding not only to the beauty of the
city, but to the health, comfort and happiness of all of its
people.
To that end I urged, and Council has seen fit to adopt
my recommendation, that a special annual tree planting appropriation be begun, and $3,000 has accordingly been set
aside for the beginning of that important work in 1907.
This, the Park and Tree Commassion advises, will be sufficient to complete tree planting on three main thoroughfares,
using seventeen hundred trees for that purpose. As I said
a year ago, I believe public opinion will be so strongly arrayed behind this class of expenditure that no future council will hesitate a moment to continue it, and probably to
increase it as the city's finances may justify such a course.
A continuing appropriation of $5,000 yearly for ten years,
sufficient for the planting of probably twenty thousand
trees within that time, would work a wonderful change in
the aspect of our highways and really justify our claim to
the proud title of "Forest City."
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. ________21
In this connection I also urge that the work of improvement which wrought so marked a change in the Strand between Drayton and WMtaker streets, be continued eastward to Bast Broad and westward to Jefferson, so that the
northern side of the Bay will present an unbroken vista of
green, and that .the beauty of this stretch of parkland be
increased by the continuation of the artificial stone walk
its entire length. A similar walk should also replace the
miserable brick pavement on Oglethorpe avenue, facing the
Colonial Park, which is visited by thousands of strangers
every year. Another important forward step has been begun in the purchase of land for the widening of Estill avenue and the creation of a boulevard one hundred feet wide.
Negotiations are under way with property owners to complete land purchases needed for this, and our successors
will have it in their hands to establish a magnificent driveway to the county line. The county commissioners, manifesting their usual public spirit, can be relied on to continue
the work to Thunderbolt. Eventually this boulevard will
be lined with beautiful homes ancl become one of the most
attractive thoroughfares we have.
Betterments Made in 1906.
As the city's finances now permit of the adornment of
the streets on a more extensive scale than heretofore, so
they also permit of a continuance of those classes of permanent improvements which are in public demand, and which
meet the needs of a city that aspires to a leading position
among American municipalities. During the year just ended our total cash resources were $1,034,713.43, our expenditures $1,013,957.64, leaving a cash balance of $20,755.79.
Of the expenditures, $181,614 was required for the payment
of interest on the public debt and for its reduction, $609.052
was expended in the regular departmental operations, and
22 MAYOR'S ANNUAL. REPORT.
$223,291, or twenty-two per cent, of the total expenditures,
was laid out on permanent betterments, as follows:
Final payments on new City Hall$63,484
Street paving ________- 66,485
Street opening and new parks 54,293
New sewers _________ 9,081
Bilbo canal improvements *- ___________ 9,166
Sidewalks ___________________ 13,447
Waterworks extensions ____- 5,935
Emmet park ___________________ 1,400
This was in accord with the record of the previous seven
years of this administration, which saw about twenty-one
per cent, of the total income of the city, or about twentyeight per cent, of the amount available after provision had
been made for the public debt, utilized for improvements
tending to promote the best interests of the entire community. The United States government in its reports now
shows Savannah among th*e first cities in the land as regards
the proportion of its income expended on betterments, a
record of which our citizens can well feel proud. This is
one of the few cities whose debts are steadily diminishing
while their expenditures for public improvements are increasing and their finances giving promise of steady reduction of tax rates.
During the year 38,150 square yards of streets were
paved, or two miles, making a total of forty-one miles of
paved streets and lanes at this time. The purchases of land
for street opening and park purposes aggregated 5,398,741
square feet. Payments on this account, as stated, were
$54,293. It has been the custom for many years to pay for
land bought for streets partly with notes, provision being
made in each budget for the payment of such obligations
maturing during the ensuing twelve months, with an addi-
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 23
tional cash appropriation also. In this connection I desire
to express the opinion that interest on these deferred payments should hereafter be at the rate of four per cent, instead of five.- A few years ago six per cent, was the rate,
but it was reduced by us to five.
Reduction of Tax Bate.
The final payments were made on the City Hall and
its furnishings during the year, relieving the city of that
special appropriation, which has averaged for the last three
years over $80,000. This fact, together with the generally
excellent business condition of the city, led me to believe
that the time was ripe for a reduction of the tax rate to
1.25 net. Under the facts as I presented them to the Board
of Aldermen this reduction of six points in the rate was
made for the year 1907. This and a similar reduction at the
close of this administration in 1896 are the only ones-that
have been made in the tax rate in a quarter century. By
this reduction the income of the city from realty and personalty sources is diminished by approximately $27,000. In
a measure this is offset by the annual reduction in interest
on the public debt, the increase in the total valuation of
city property, brought about by the assessment of the new
limits and improvements, and by the small annual increase
in income from business taxes. Our total income, under the
new rate, will probably be but slightly less than last year.
In the preparation of the budget for 1907 we accordingly
had sufficient funds in sight to provide liberally for the
maintenance of the regular departments and continue our
policy of betterments such as a thriving and progressive
city like Savannah requires. The budget carries a total appropriation for works of this character of $143,300, or nearly twenty per cent, of the total expenditures outlined for
the ensuing year, exclusive of the bonded indebtedness!.
24 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
The money at the command of our successors will
doubtless enable them to expend for betterments considerably beyond the amount provided in the budget. It was
our desire in preparing the budget for 1907 to carefully
avoid in any way embarrassing those who are to conduct
the city's finances during the next two years, and the prospective municipal income is far from being absorbed by the
budget. No consideration has ever been taken of monies
that might come in from unexpected sources, and allowance
has been miade for a liberal cash balance throughout the
year. The probability is that the resources in 1907 will be
considerable in excess of the appropriations.
"We are turning the city over to our successors in excellent shape, and, it is a pleasurfe to note, in far improved
state when compared with the Savannah of eight years ago.
Inasmuch as, after twenty years of service for the municipality, ten years as an alderman (1885-94) and ten years
as mayor (1895-96 and 1899-1906) I am retiring permanently
from official connection with the government, it may not
be improper for me to briefly review the stewardship that
has been entrusted to me, and state succinctly what has been
done with the funds that during -those ten years of my
mayoralty have been consumed by the city government.
What has been accomplished has been wrought by the loyal
and intelligent support of the aldermen and city officers,
to whom my deep personal and official obligation is herewith acknowledged.
Financial Record of Ten Years.
During the ten years I refer to the expenditures of the
city for all purposes have aggregated $8,851,261. Of this
amount, $1,568,933 was required for the payment of interest
on the public debt, and $464,814 for its reduction by the
MAYOR'S ANNUAL BEPORT. 25
purchase of outstanding bonds, these purchases having reduced our annual interest charge by $23,250. In all $2,-
033,747 was consumed by the debt handed down to us from
previous generations. We are now within the constitutional
limitation as to the bonded indebtedness of Georgia municipalities, and the city once more has the borrowing power
within its hands. I trust the occasion will never occur when
that power will have to be utilized. Savannah's policy, I
am convinced after two decades of study of its finances,
should be one of steady reduction of its debt, continued
public betterments to the full extent its regular income and
the maintenance of its departments on a scope adequate to
its needs permit, and an occasional reduction in its tax rate
until a permanent net rate of one per cent, is established.
The disposition should be to lessen the public burden. Our
growing income, properly administered, is adequate to do
this, and citizens should set their faces sternly against any
proposition which may come to them to issue new bonds
other than those required for the refunding of the outstanding obligations. In studying the experience of other cities
it is apparent that the ability to borrow money by new bond
issues is a strong temptation to those in official place. I
am not one of those who regard a great public debt as a
public blessing, nor do I believe in shouldering unnecessary
obligations on future generations. A city of our size that
can expend from its regular resources $150,000 to $200,000
a year in betterments is amply meeting public requirements.
Deducting those fixed charges referred to, which no
administration can escape, we find that in the ten years of
this administration there was available in its hands for the
maintenance of departments and for public improvements
$6,820,514. The fact cannot be too strongly impressed upon
our people that twenty-three cents out of every dollar paid
into the city treasury is mortgaged in advance to the holders
of obligations saddled on the municipality a half century
I
26 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
ago. It is felly for the expenditure of the remaining seventy-seven cents that this administration, or any other, can
be properly held responsible. Of such free funds aggregating, as I have pointed out, $6,820,514 in the ten years, 1895-
1896 and 1899-1906, $1,890,746, or nearly twenty-eight per
cent., was utilized for betterments demanded by the necessities of a growing and ambitious city, deficient in many
respects, betterments that the public convenience, comfort,
and general welfare demanded and which, I am convinced,
the public mind has steadfastly approved and now endorses
regardless .of any passing antagonistic clamor that may be
aroused for partisan political ends. I am without the slightest doubt that the calm intelligence of the commiunity recognizes that this administration, whatever its errors of judgment may have been, has ever sought Savannah's development along lines that tend to promote the prosperity of its
citizens, individually and collectively.
Ten Years* Betterments.
The $1,890,746 expended for betterments in the ten
years of this administration, was distributed as follows:
Paving streets _______________$562,241
Opening streets and new parks______ 407,608
New City Hall and furnishings'_____ 270,050
House drainage system ___________ 263,657
Sidewalks ___________________ 143,308
Extension of waterworks, air lift, and payments on new waterworks________ 138,345
Gwinnett street subway ___________ 36,398
Fire department, new buildings and new
apparatus ________________ 31,552
New sewers _________________ 37,587
MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 37
That the departments were not allowed to suffer because of these large expenditures for betterments is shown
by the fact that the total annual appropriations for them
are now $140,000 greater than they were ten years ago, the
police, fire, public works and other departments employing
a much larger number of men to meet the increased work
incident to the city's growth in population, and their equipment being thoroughly up-to-date. The wages of a large
number of employes have also been raised to meet the increased expenditures of living, policemen and firemen now
receiving $10 a month more. Many of the street and lane
hands and other workingmen in the public works department have also been benefited by an advance in their pay.
As the cost of the necessaries of life is still advancing it is
but just that the question of a further readjustment of
wages to meet the changed conditions should be given careful consideration this year. The officials and clerks, as a
rule, are adequately paid for their services. It is among the
laboring element of the city's force that increased pay may
be more especially required in order that they may live in
accordance with the necessities of American workingmen.
I can but review briefly what has been accomplished
under each of the above heads. When this administration
assumed charge in 1895 the total mileage paved was eighteen, considerable of which was sh'ell and other unsatisfactory substances, part of which has since been removed and
modern paving materials substituted. At present the entire
mileage of paved streets is forty-one miles, of which over
nineteen miles were laid during the ten years of this administration. This ten years' paving aggregated 396,091 square
yards, divided as follows:
28 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Vitrified brick ________________ 298,399
Granite ___________________ 23,505
Cobble _____________________ 21,948
Asphalt blocks ________________ 9,999
Shell chert and gravel ___________ 42,240
For opening streets and new parks the city has acquired
during our ten years' service over ten million square feet.
In no other ten years of the city's history has such a large
quantity of property been secured or so large a sum expended for this important work.
Of the new City Hall it is not necessary to make more
than a passing reference. We can justly regard it as one
of the monuments of this administration. Visitors from all
parts of the country have, during the past twelve months,
praised it. Not only has it given the municipal government
a home worthy of a city of Savannah's importance, but the
building of the hall out of the city's regular funds has been
an excellent advertisement for the city's financial condition
and has indicated to the world Savannah's spirit of determination to advance at least in keeping with the progress
of its sister cities, if not to excel them in many ways.
The house drainage system, embracing fifty-three miles
of sewers, was almjost entirely paid for during this administration. The total cost of the system as it stands today
was $277,015, of which, as shown above, $263,657, or ninetyfive per cent., was furnished by the present administration.
The waterworks, outside of their maintenance, have
called for various appropriations, aggregating the amount
I have mentioned. The plant is in thoroughly good condition. Every year calls for the extension of the supply pipes,
etc. During our ten years' administration fifteen miles of
pipes have been laid, total at present being sixty-seven
miles. The Gwinnett street subway was one of the more
MAYOR'S ANNUAL. REPORT. 29
important of the minor betterments, and an agency for the
public safety that commends itself to all. In the Fire Department two new houses were provided, new engines purchased, and the department in general kept in an up-to-date
state, comparing most favorably with that of any other city
of our class, and far superior to that of the majority. In
storm sewers the expenditure referred to resulted in an
increase in the sewerage system, having no connection with
the house drainage system, of seven miles.
Other Forward Steps.
I have thus hastily reviewed the operations of ten
years, believing that the tax payers and citizens generally
have a right to such a summary at the time we are leaving
office. There have been other things accomplished of which
we may justly feel proud.
In the face of bitter, and, to my mind, senseless opposition, the city was relieved by this administration of the
expense and annoyance of maintaining a quarantine station,
and a satisfactory sale of the station and its 'equipment made
to the United States, whose Marine Hospital Service has
since conducted it with the highest efficiency and to the best
interests of our commerce and the public health, at the same
time relieving the municipality of an outlay of $10,000 to
$15,000 yearly and removing from our commerce the tax
hitherto levied upon it.
The I*ublic Library, now with over 7,000 readers, was
established by us in co-operation with the Georgia Historical
Society and gives promise of becoming a great factor in the
intellectual life of the community.
80 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Campaigns for deeper water have been.conducted that
have resulted in making our commercial progress and our
needs and importance as a port known to the world at large.
The securing of industrial establishments has been stimulated by a liberal policy on the part of the municipality
toward those seeking locations.
No opportunity to advertise the advantages and possibilities of Savannah as a commercial or industrial or jobbing
point has been overlooked. On these works many thousands
of dollars have been judiciously expended with highly gratifying results.
The health of the city has been sedulously guarded until
today Savannah takes front rank among the cities of America in this vital respect.
A system of annual appropriations to the military was
introduced and has been maintained.
The expenditures for the care and relief of the poor
have been increased as the occasion required.
Work for Our Successors.
Many important duties confront our successors, whoever they may be.
*
The house drainage system must be taken up and extended to other sections of the city.
The policy of extensive street paving and street opening must be continued if the public interests are to be conserved.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 81
A meter system must be introduced to check waste, or
arrangements made for a larger supply of water. In this
connection I need but remark that our per capita consumption of 125 gallons of water daily is greatly in excess of that
of most cities of the South.
Our park system is to be enlarged and beautified.
The completion of the work of converting Bilbo canal
into a sewer awaits it, as well as the building of other sewers
to meet the requirements of an expanding city.
Of the bonded debt, $2,600,000 of the issue of 1879 is to
be refunded in 1909. All necessary arrangements must be
made by the incoming mayor and aldermen.
The refunding of the public debt, if even no better
terms than four per cent, can be secured, will decrease the
yearly interest charge by $26,000. This $26,000 can either
be applied to a further reduction of the tax rate by five
or six points, say to 1.20 net, or can be utilized in betterments. If the latter plan is adopted the city, after 1909, will
easily be in position to expend over $200,000 yearly in betterments, without impairing in the slightest degree the efficiency of its departments.
A Plea for Unity.
The policy of a helping hand and an encouraging spirit
toward railroad and industrial enterprises, which, I may
safely assert, has continuously characterized our conduct of
the government, should be maintained. And, finally, and
in some respects of more pressing importance than any other
work confronting the next administration, is the securing
of favorable congressional action on our petition for deeper
water.
32 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
The life of our city depends on our harbor. If we are
not to be numbered among the cities whose hopes of future
development have been blasted we must secure deeper water
from the city to the sea. In its efforts to obtain this the
city government must assume the aggressive, the financial
burden incurred must fall upon it as the representative of
all the people, and it must work, in season and out of season, regardless of the opposition that may develop against
our securing the necessary large appropriations at Washington, until favorable congressional action has been secured
and thirty feet of water is in sight. Our business interests
realize, even if the general public may not do so, that this
is a critical time in the history of Savannah as a port. Behind all efforts to strengthen its position should stand a
united people. Regardless as to who may be at the head of
the city government during the next two years, I urge that
our citizens hold up the administration's hands in all of its
work for the upbuilding of our city. Our political differences should be submerged for the public good and an unbroken front presented. We have a city with a glorious
past and a brilliant futurea city in which even the lowliest of our people can feel an intense pride. Under no
conditions should we allow mere partisan spirit to hamper
any work that has for its object the pushing forward of
Savannah to a more'advantageous position among the cities
of the land. In such works I bespeak for our successors,
without regard as to who may constitute the next board,
or who may sit in the mayoralty chair, the generous, wholesouled, enthusiastic support of every man, woman and child
who loves Savannah and whose aspiration is that Savannah
shall never cease to stand as the true exponent of Southern
progress, as well as of Southern culture and Southern manhood and womanhood.
Very respectfully,
HERMAN MYERS, Mayor.
IIAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 83
EEPOET OF THE SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS.
SAVANNAH, GA., December 31, 1906.
To His HONOR, HERMAN MYERS, Mayor,
City of Savannah.
SIR: The Sinking Fund Commissioners respectfully submit their Twenty-eighth Annual Eeport.
With the funds at our disposal we have purchased bonds
of the issue of 1879, as follows:
January 15, 1906, $1,000 for................. .$1,041.65
January 17, 1906, 9,'000 for................. 9,380.70
April 11, 1906, 6,500 for.................. 6,678.00
April 27, 1906, 1,600 for.................. 1,642.50
May 1, 1906, 1,500 for.................. 1,530.00
July 10, 1906, 8,000 for.................. 8,120.00
July 11, 1906, 2,900 for. ................. 2,958.00
October 31, 1906, 6,000 for.................. 6,141.24
November 1, 1906, 1,800 for.................. 1,838.25
November 15, 1906, 1,000 for.................. 1,012.50
November 22, 1906, 2,000 for.................. 2,015.00
$41,300 $42,357.84
Previously
purchased .... .762,100 787,807.52
Total ............ $803,400 $830,165.36
34 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
We have purchased bonds of issue 1883, as follows:
January 8, 1906, 1,000 for............... $1,080.00
April 6,1906, 1,500 for............... 1,620.00
July 10, 1906, 1,000 for............... 1,080.00
Axigust 23,1906 1,000 for............... 1,075.00
October 27, 1906 500 for............... 540.00
November 15,1906, 2,000 for............... 2,165.00
November 22, 1906, 1,000 for............... 1,082,50
$8,000 for............... $8,642.50
Previously
purchased 120,150 ............... 122,439.75
Total $128,150 ....'........... $131,082.25
All the above mentioned bonds and unmatured coupons
have been cancelled and handed to the City Treasurer for
such final disposition as Council may direct.
Issue of
Signed and made available for
exchange, as per last report . $3,522,800.00
Issued in exchange, as per last
report ................".. .$3,517,000.00
Exchanged for old bonds..... 500.00 3,517,500.00
Bonds available for exchange
in the hands of the City
Treasurer ................ 5,300.00
Of the bonds issued $830,800 have been cancelled as
follows;
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 35
Received for balance of ground rent.......... 9,200.00
Special purchase as per last report.......... 18,200.00
Purchased out of sinking fund................ 803,400.00
Total ................................. 830,800.00
Which leaves outstanding of the issue of 1879.$2,686,700.00
Issue of 1883.
Signed and made available for
exchange ................ .$390,000.00
Issued in exchange as per last
report ................... 388,700.00
Leaving available for exchange
in the hands of the City
Treasurer ................ $1,300.00
Of the bonds issued $143,050 have been cancelled as
follows:
Special purchases ............................ 14,900.00
Purchased out of Sinking Fund............... .128,150.00
143,050.00
Which leaves outstanding of the issue of 1883.. .245,650.00
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. J. MILLS.
JOHN LYONS.
S. HERMAN.
CHARLES G. BELL.
36 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
BONDED DEBT JANUARY 1, 1907.
Bond Compromise 1879
Issued and outstanding Jan. 1, 1906. .$2,728,000
Less redeemed and cancelled by Sinking Fund Commissioners______ 41,300
Amount outstanding ............ $2,686,700
Bond Compromise 1883
Issued and outstanding Jan. 1, 1906...$ 253,650
Less redeemed and cancelled by Sinking Fund Commissioners______ 8,000
Amount outstanding ............. $ 245,650
New bonds outstanding.............. 2,932,350
Old bond outstanding, not compromised ............................... $2,000
Indorsed Savannah, Alabamy & Gulf
R. R. outstanding.................. 1,300
Old bonds oustanding................ 3,300
Total bonded debt............... $2,935,650
STATEMENT OF CITY OF SAVANNAH BONDS.
iMiie 18795 Per Cent.
Blank Bonds
Printed.
"3>
11,000
500
800
100
O15
2000
8000
10CO
1000
^
C
p
o
e
12,000,030
1,500.000
300,000
100000
18,900,000
Destroyed by
Finance
Committee.
1
290
575
575

<! |
t 145,000
172,500
57,5.0
f 875,000
Signed by
S. F. Commissioners.
gj
*
2000
2700
426
418
9
O
S
5
12.000,000
1,854,000
m,soo
41,300
$8,522,800
On Hand
Signed.
o

8
'
1=
g
S^
t 4,000
t 4,000
On Hand
not Signed.

12
c
g
g
**
$ 1,200
$ 1.200
Signed and
Issued.
eg
55
2000
2696
484
418
.4
a
e
S5
f,COO,ODO
1.84V.OOO
127,200
41,800
13,517,500
Not
Available
^
*
2
1
^
g
^
1 1.000
800
$ 1,800
Cancelled by
S. F. Commissioners.
{
*
448
615
205
188
J
J3
O
^
t 448,000
807,600
01,500
18,800
t 830,800
Amount
Outstanding
(i
*
1352
3088
219
875
o
a
$ 1,552,090
1,041,500
66,700
27,500
$2,686,700
O
03
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a
8
as
STATEMENT OF CITY OF SAVANNAH BONDS.
Issue 18835 Per Cent.
Blank Bond*
1'rlnted.
Value.
$1,01)0
500
60
1
800
200
800
Amount.
f 800,000
100.000
16,000
1 415.00)
Destroyed by
Finance
Committee.
i
50
Amount.
f 23,000
1 25,000
Signed by S. F.
Commissioners.
1
300
ICO
800
Amount.
f 800,000
76,000
16,000
t 890,000
Oi
S
6 *
2
8
i Hand
tftned.
Amount.
t 1,000
800
1 1,800
Slimed and
Issued.
i
800
147.
804
Amount.
t 800,000
78,500
15,800
t 888,700
Cancelled by
8. P.
Commissioners.
6
fc
111
68
111
Amount.
1 111,000
88,500
6,550
I 158,000
Amount
Outstanding
1
189
04
198
Amount.
t 189,000
47,000
9,650
$ 245,6*0
3
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MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 89
REPORT OP THE CITY MARSHAL.
Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor.
Dear SirI have the honor to submit my annual report for the year 1906, ending this day.
The money < olleeted in this office amounts to $49,072.66
as per itemized statement hereto attached.
Ground RentsAll lots reported to this office by the
.City Treasurer have been re-entered for arrears of rent, as
required by ordinance.
Obstructions of streets and sidewalks were promptly
removed.
Itemized Statement of Collections.
Real Estate:
1899 ..................$ 8.70
1900 ................. 18.13
,1901 .......... ...... 20.08
1902 ................. 66.71
1903 __________ 374.37
1904 ................ 2,074.06
1905 ................. 12,435.07$14,997.12
40 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Personal Property:
1899 .................$ 6.17
1900 ................. 0.73
1901 ................. 6.53
1902 ................ 12.33
1903 ................ 116.36
1904 ................ 136.66
1905 ................ 989.86
1906 ................ 2,629.75$ 3,898.39
Specific Tax:
1904 ................^ 155.00
1905 .................. 60.00
1906 ................ 8,810.00-$ 9,025.00
Paving Streets:
Berrien 1902....$ 46.75
Price 1902.... 38.86
Stewart 1902.... 14.62
Henry 1903.... 110.15
Abercorn 1904.... 502.07
Farm 1904.... 184.22
Habersham 1904.... 95.14
Park Ave 1904.... 641.37
State 1904.... 309.17
31st, 1904.... 191.17
West Broad 1904.... 68.96
Abercorn 1905.... 167.00
Harmon 1905.... 2,422.04
Jones 1905.... 1,470.05
31st, 1905.... 519.70
"Whitaker 1905.... 823.77-$ 7,605.04
MAYOB'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 41
Paving Sidewalks:
1902 .................^ 1.07
1903 ................. 177.91
1904 ................. 320.95
1905 ................. 704.32
1906 ................. 5.54-$ 1,209.79
Market Vaults. ........$ 1,902.00
Market Stalls .......... 1,129.50$ 3,031.50
Fees .................. 973.80
Advertising ............ 131.90
Interest ............... 304.72
Opening Sts............ 27.00
City Lots ............. 7,200.00
City Property (Pol Bar.) 662.65
Incidentals ........... .$ 3.30
Cutting Weeds, 1903.... .2.45
Recapitulation :
Real Estate .......... .$14,997.12
Personal Property ..... 3,898.39
Specific Tax ........... 9,025.00
Paving Streets ......... 7,605.04
Paving Sidewalks ...... 1,209.79
Market ............... 3,031.50
Fees .................. 973.80
Advertising ........... 131.90
Interest ............... 304.72
Opening Streets ........ 27.00
City Lots ............. 7,200.00
v City Property ......... 662.65
Incidentals ............ 3.30
Cutting Weeds ........ 2.45$49,072.66
Very respectfully,
HENRY E. DREESON, City Marshal.
MATOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
REPORT OF THE BUILDING INSPECTOR.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1907.
Hox. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor.
SIRI beg to submit my report for the year 1906.
Total number of permits during year 1906_____467
Number of permits carried over from 1905_____ 55
Total number of permits for building operations in
1906 _________________________ 522
Permits carried over from 1906 to 1907______ 27
Actual number of permits used during 1906____ 495
The building operations for the year were as follows:
Finished four-story brick buildings________ 2
Finished three-story brick buildings.- 3
Finished two-story brick buildings_________ 6
Finished one-story brick buildings__________ 10
Finished three-story frame buildings________ 2
Finished two-story frame buildings______111
Finished one-story frame buildings_164
Total number of buildings completed in 1906 298
Repairs, additions, sheds, etc., completed in 1906316
Buildings, additions, sheds, etc., carried over to
1907 __________. ______________ 49
Respectfully submitted,
H. BARTLETT, Building Inspector.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 43
REPORT OF TAX ASSESSORS.
SAVANNAH, GA., December 31, 1906.
HON. HERMAN MTEBS, Mayor.
DEAR SIBWe present herewith the report of the Board
of Tax Assessors for the year 1906.
Returns of personal property:
Stock in trade ____________________$ 2,234,570
Furniture, etc. _____________.____ 1,037,760
Jewelry, Silverware, etc. _____________ 97,540
Musical Instruments _____________- 47,955
Libraries, etc. _____________________ 55,880
Horses, Mules, Live Stock ____________ 98,375
Vehicles ________________________ 131,000
Money and Solvent Accounts_________ 2,812,635
Stocks and Bonds __________________ 963,080
Promissory Notes ________________ 76,300
Mortgages _____________________ 169,410
Shipping ______.________________ 1,163,750
Machinery, Fixtures, etc. _____________ 200,300
Banks _________________________ 4,211,000
Other personal property ____________ 9,550
Corporations from Compt. Genl__________ 906,370
Total _______________________$14,215,475
During the year there were 467 building permits
issued, the improvements amounting to$ 473,625
44 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
We have re-assessed sixteen wards on the western
side of the city, which together show an increase in assessed valuation for the year 1907
of ________________$ 242,700
We have also assessed all the property within the
extended limits. AVe find the total assessed
valuation to be _________________$ 1,366,535
The books containing the new improvements, re-assessments and the extended limits are now open in our office
for inspection by all parties at interest.
The total taxable property of the city of Savannah is
as follows, and is compared with the year 1905 to show
increase in each class:
1905 1906
Real Estate ______-___-__$29,970,933 $31,000,593
Personal Property __________ 13,226,564 14,215,475
Totals ______________$43,197,497 $45,216,068
Total for 1906________$45,216,068 at $1.45 $655,632.99
Total for 1905________ 43)197,497 at 1.45 626,363.70
Increase _________$ 2,018,571 at $1.45 $ 29,269.29
Very respectfully submitted,
J. H. H. OSBORNE, Chairman.
SAMUEL REYNOLDS.
MARION LUCAS.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 45
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.
Headquarters Police Department.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1907.
To THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN,
Of the City of Savannah.
- GENTLEMENI have the honor to submit herewith my
annual report for the year 1906.
An examination of the contents will show that the work
assigned to the department has been well taken care of.
Very respectfully,
CHARLES GARFUNKEL,
Superintendent of Police.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Number of Arrests made During the Year 1906.
This does not include eases placed on the Information
docket.
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Arson --....--_.._.__........_..____
Attempt to Commit Rape_______..__
Assault with Intent to Murder..-__-__..
Adultery and Fornication.._._____.--.
Burglary -__-__..____..____....
Buying and Receiving Stolen Goods-......--
Cheating and Swindling __----__-.-
Carrying Concealed Weapons________ -
Cruelty to Animals____..---...____..
Deserting Soldiers and Sailors__.__--..
Drunk ..___-_-------_____
Drunk and Disorderly.--.._---___-----
Disorderly Conduct ___--...._____..-..
Escaped Convicts . ....
Forgery __-.--..-- ......__........
Gambling ____-.-___---_- ...-.__.-
Highway Robbery ...._...._._....
Inciting Riot -__----_-__--__..____..._
Keeping Gambling Hous3 -_-....--___..
Keeping Open a Tippling House on the Sabbath Day ._--__-__-_.--_-._...
Keeping Open Place of Business on the Sabbath Day _______________ ___
Keeping a Lewd House....-_.______._
Keeping a Disorderly House........---__-..
Larceny . . .
Murder .- ----...----------..--- -
Obtaining Money under False Pretense______
Suspicious Characters _-__-----.-..__
Stealing Ride on Railway Train...___-----
Selling Liquor to Minors.-_-.__-__._-___.__
Vagrancy ... .___.__......._...
Violating Automobile Ordinance.....--.._.__
Violating Hack Ordinance __..........,-.-
Violating Sanitary Ordinance___..._-_.-
Violating Tax Ordinance..._________-..
Fighting ... .__.-..-__._
Total.-....-. _. ...M09 )4666
28
4
12
5
6
12
8
4
237
602
204
4
4
32
24
48
4
2
86
12
2
12
4
6
12
14
74
2
4
143
6
118
4
9
108
16
706
1.184
593
11
2
23
12
6
4
4
4
4
593
12
2
818
16
886
24
36
8
304
2
4
171
10
130
9
15
120
24
4
943
1.786
797
11
6
24
12
6
4
36
28
4
4
641
16
4
854
28
2
398
4
80
48
22
878
6,075
MAYOR'S ANNUM, REPORT. 47
Number of White Prisoners Arrested.___ __1,409
Number of Colored Prisoners Arrested_-----------4,666
Total number of arrests lor year___.______6,075
Arrests Made by Detectives.
January ____ 63 July ________ 71
February ___._ 60 August __________ 82
March __________104 September ________112
April ___________118 October __________ 87
May ___________ 96 November ________ 93
June ___________112 December ________165
Total _________________________1,163
Officers' Reports.
January _______19,302 July __________18,102
February _______19,406 August ________18,404
March ________18,317 September ______17,806
April __________18,214 October _______17,684
May __________17,988 November _______18,309
June __________17,860 December _______18,216
Total ________________________219,608
Patrol Calls.
January __________384 July ____________423
February ________396 August __________485
March __^______472 September ________472
April ___________421 October _________428
May ___________432 November _______484
June __________412 December 514
Total _________________________5,323
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Ambulance Calls.
January _________134 July ____________132
February ________122 August ____-____129
March __________141 September ________147
.April ___________118 October __________131
May ___________124 November ________129
June .108 December ________143
Total ___________________________1,558
Offices and Buildings reported as being" found open at
night, 624.
ROSTER OF POLICE DEPARTMENT.
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Charles G*rfunkel - _
Baughn, H. W.-_- _ .
Dayis, R. E_ . .__ ...
McCool, J. _ _... _
Murphy, T. C
Woods, J. A _______
Hartley, E. f. ........
Murphy. J. J__ _-...__
Elvers, P. J__.--_--.-_
Atkinson, C. 3 -----
Becker, W. L._ __ __.
Brazell, P. P..... ......
Brantley, J. H.
Best, C. D.
Blumberg, L. ...
Brown, J. E. ___.-.._-
Bryant, B. S. _ ..__
Beach, J. K..-__.._
Burns, Chas. _
Collins, M. N .......
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Cohen, D. _
Christie, C. T. _____
Cowart, C. S
Cronin, D. J. _______
Cohjen, M. G.-_.. _ .__
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January 26, 1903.
September 29, 1881.
September 13, 1869.
September 24, 1891.
August 22, 1890.
October 25, 1897.
October 9, 1900.
November 20, 1897.
June 27, 1890.
April 8, 1896.
July 24, 1891.
July 21, 1902.
October 1, 1868.
November 3, 1899.
February 4, 1896.
September 25, 1902.
July 23, 1902.
February 28, 1902.
July 20, 1903.
December 14, 1904.
August 3, 1902.
February 11, 1904.
October 1, 1890.
October 9, 1900.
December 10, 1887.
July 23, 1902.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 49
ROSTER OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENTContinued.
NAME
Counihan, D. J._
Clancy, J. J.
Duffy, T. J. ..'-_
Dav.is, E. F._
Davls, M, ... .....
Davls, R. T.-.. _--.
Davls, R. B._
Fallen, E. D ....
'Fleming, W. H..-.-_ --
Fleming, M. B...- ___
Futch,'T. D._. . ._
Guilfoyle, J. _
Griffin, T, J....... __
Halford, J. 8.- -----
Higgins, J. S- _ -
Harley, H. E. _____
Hendry, E. I* -
Hicks, W. E. _ -..---.
Harper, J. G. --------
Ivey, A. _ _---.-
Jones, H. ----------- _
Kearney, F. J.._. __..
Kelly, P. J.___-.___ __
Kiernan, W. -- _ ..
Rsane, D. J. ___ -----
Lange, J. H. ______
Laird, R. A. __ -------
Lov^ett, R. F. ______
Lewis, J. N...... . - -
Meldrim, M. L. .___..
Moelu-ke, P. H. __ _
Malphus, C. M. ___ _
Meyers, C. D. _ .....
Miller, H. _ ......._.
McAlpin, T. E. _ _
McCarthy, J, C. ___
MeGrath, J. _ ___ _
McLaughlin, 'j. T._
O'Reilly, J. J..........
Padgett, D. A.
Paul, A. _________
Reisen, H. _
Rellly, J. J. ____ . _
Remley, W. E. ________
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July 16, 1906.
October 8, 1900.
October 11, 1900.
August 18, 1881.
July 8, 1899.
January 10, 1890.
July 23, 1902.
February 6, 1894.
August 10, 1906.
November 28, 1893.
October 26, 1900.
October 4, 1904.
November 4, 1896.
June 30, 1903.
September 12, 1894.
August 9, 1881.
November 29, 1902.
October 11, 1904.
December 22, 1899.
January 15, 1900.
June 24, 1905.
October 1, 1906.
December 14, 1891.
July 29, 1906.
September 7, 1898.
January 26, 1891.
September 17, 1871.
February 6, 1904.
October 9, 1897.
March 2, 1903.
December 3, 1906.
March 2, 1903.
February 14, 1896.
October 28, 1905.
November 28, 1902.
December 4, 1903.
September 28, 1899.
March 13, 1902.
July 2, 1900.
July 21, 1902.
July 29, 1905.
October 31, 1906. .
July 6, 1906.
March 29, 1905.
March 16, 1891.
October 25, 1901.
June 11, 1904.
50 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
ROSTER OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENTContinued.
NAME
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Robinson, 0. K. -------
Seully, M. -. _ - --.
Sbeehan, W. .
Shea, C. P. _ _ ---
Smith, G. L.-----_-
Smith, W. H. ______
Semken, 3. D...
Sims, W. P.-.
Sullivan, D. _ _..._.-
TuHis, B. L. ___ - ___
Ungar, B. - __
Winn, W. S. __
Walker, D. P..--.- __
Woods, D. R __ - ___ -
White, W. P. . -.-.-_
Bobtesfcy, M. .-.. __
Morgan, L. P.____ _ _ .
Monroe, 3. H... _
Claiborne, W. D. ___
Lane, 3. ... __ --- -
Owen, P. Reilly ____
Floyd, B. G. ___ __
McQuade, M. -.. ___
Williams, J. T. ____
Christian, J. A. _ ....
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Retired ex-privabs
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WHBH APPOIKTISD
October 25, 1905.
O'ccober 25, 1906.
February 24, 1890.
December 1, 1882.
July 23, 1902.
September 5, 1893.
August 27, 1867.
February 4, 1896.
September 25, 1902.
Juiys 11. ISMFebruary 6, 1895.
April 1, 1889.
December 8, 1896.
March 2, 1903.
February 1, 1905.
May 9, 1905.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 51
REPORT OF RECORDER.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 15, 1907.
HON. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor,
City of Savannah.
DEAR SIRI have the honor to submit this my fifth
annual report as Recorder of the Police Court of this city.
No reports were ever made by my predecessors in office,
the practice having been inaugurated by me in 1902 during
my second year as Recorder.
As I am retiring from office after six years' service, I
have included in this report a brief summary of each year's
work, which will show the steady increase of the business
of the court from 1901 to the present date.
Prior to 1902 the amount of fines collected each year
approximated five thousand dollars. In 1902 the sum of
$6,242.95 was collected, and during the last year, 1906, the
largest sum was collected from fines in the history of the
police court of this city. The amount appearing on the
books of the City Treasurer for the twelve months of the
year is $12,236.00. It will thus be noted that in six years
the receipts from fines have been doubled.
During the year 1906 the police court committed to the
City Court of Savannah and the Superior Court of Chatham
County the largest Bumjber of eases involving violations of
the State laws ever before committed, the total number being 1,072.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
It will thus be apparent that the greatest number of
cases ever tried in this court were handled during the year
1906.
Following the recommendation made by me in my report for the year 1905 for the passage of a law by the Legislature of the State remodeling the court, extending its
powers and jurisdiction, and creating the office of a clerk
of the court, I prepared such a law last spring with the
assistance of the City Attorney. This law was approved by
the Mayor and Aldermen of the city and was passed by the
Legislature, and is found in the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia for the year 1906 on page 1033.
The passage of this law has placed the police court upon
a substantial basis. ..Its powers are no longer ambiguous, as
was the case prior to the passage of this law. In its jurisdiction and procedure it now ranks with the most perfect
ntonieipal courts in the country.
The court did everything in its power during the past
year to aid the business interests of the city employing labor
to enforce the vagrancy law of the State, and thus to force
the idle to seek employment or leave the city. Two hundred people were committed to the city court for vagrancy,
and hundreds of others were compelled to work or leave
the city.
As customary the court rendered all possible assistance
to the City Marshal in enforcing the payment of licenses,
and to the Health Department in compelling obedience to
the sanitary laws of. the city.
Respectfully submitted,
SHELBT MTBICK.
Recorder of the Police Court, City of Savannah.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 68
fine* Collected in the Police Court of the City of Savannah
During the Four Quarters of the Tear 1906:
January, February and March___________$ 1,860
April, May and June_______________ 2,608
July, August and September_____________ 4,191
October, November and December___________ 3,577
Total receipts as shown by books of City Treasurer
for the twelve mlonths of the year 1906_____$12,236
Fines collected for the year 1905___________ 10,057
Increase of fines collected in 1906 over fines collected
in 1905 _________________________$ 2,179
Statement of fines collected in Police Court for each year
from 1902 to 1906 inclusive:
1902 ___________________$ 6,242.95
1903 ___________________ 9,492.90
1904 ______________.____ 9,328.00
1905 ___________________ 10,057.00
1906 ___________________ 12,236.00
54 MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT.
Statement of cases committed from the Police Court of the
City of Savannah for the Tear of 1906 to the City Court.
Vagrancy - .. ._____.______________._...199
Simple larceny __--__--.____.__._._._..___..._...._._ 97
Larceny from the house ....__...-.______.________220
Larceny from the person____...---...--.__.......____. 20
Carrying concealed weapons _ .. ____ ______ ____ ___ 84
Assault and battery __.-_---___.__....______........... 53
Keeping disorderly house ._......____.__...... ....___ 3
Firing gun on public highway.__...._........__.......... 1
Stsaling ride on a (railway train___..__.......__..___. 26
Selling liquor to minors-....--....__......'.__.----...----.. 2
Stabbing, not in own defense._-.___......_______ 36
Shooting, not in own defense.......-_...-.-...---..---..--.__ 6
Cheating and swindling _._-..._..__.---..-._..._____ 8
Pointing a pistol at another..---..---.__.....-.._.____. . 25
Attempt to commit burglary..._. ......-....--..... . 2
Adultery and fornication ___..-.._-..---..-.-_..__..__ 12'
Keeping a Ifjwd house......__. ..--_----...-..-.--.-._. 6
Open lewdness ....._._._-_.._.-.-.--.-----..-.-._...._ 1
K3ping tippling house open on Sabbath.... .__-..-..-. . 20
Buying and receiving stolen goods-.....---.... . 5
Gambling ___-...-.. ... ... .--..----. -.... 19
Entering house with Intent to steal......---.-. ..__ 2
Doing business on the Sabbath... . ......... ... 25
Keeping gambling house .._...._..-.-.......... 5
Keeping a device for hazarding money.-..-_._-.--_-.--.._-.__ 10
Defacing property -........-.-...... J.
Obtaining money under false pretenses... -.--.--.... 1
Driving a bourse without owner's consent.... 8
Escaped from chain gang....... . ....... ....__ 2
Disposing of property bought undjer a conditional bill of sale 2
Impersonating another . ..--.- ... . -.... 1
Wife beating 1
Intimidating and presenting persons from laboring.... . 2
Total _-----_---..._.....__..-_...__-- .....905
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 55
TO THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Assault with intent to murder __.__ 54
Burglary ----- -- ----- -_ . . -..- 49
Assault with intent to rape--_-------------__-----__-___.. 2
Rape -- -- - ----- 2
Obtaining goods on fatee writing.. . ... 3
Larceny after trust .-._. - .-..._._.._____ 20
Murder ------ -._ 10
Robbery by force .. - .--. . ..__.___.... 17
Forgery ... - -.._.- .-.. .. . 3
Bigamy - . . 1
Adultery ---- -- ---- - --------__----____ 2
Altering and passing a bank check. ._.__ 1
Keeping gambling house -------- ..._...__.. 1
Using vulgar language in presence of females. ___..... 2
Total ._......_-...._..__......._167
Total cases committed to the city court of Savannah for 1906 905
Total cases committed to the Superior Court of Chatham Coun:-
ty for 1906 _-.__-... .....__..-_..:..._.__.....!.__ 167
Total of all cases committei 1906 .__.._._.1,072
Total cases committed to the City Court of Savannah for 1905 623
Total cases committed to the Superior Court of Chatham County for 1905 _______-__-____ 189
Total of all case committed for 1905..________._ 812
Increase In cases committed from police court tn 1906 ov/er 1905 260
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Statement of the number of cases committed from the Police
Court to the City Court of Savannah and the Superior
Court of Chatham County for each year, from 1902 to
1906 inclusive.
1902 __--.---_ ____.___..__.- 958
1903 __________-________________1,043
1904 ______-_______________._-__ 793
1905 .. .__...__...__...-._-_..__ 812
1906 ....____-.__.__,______-__1,072
Seventeenth Annual Report
OF THE
Paid Fire Department
OP THE
CITY OP SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31st,
1906
FIRE COMMITTEE
OF THE
CITY OF SAVAJOTAH,
For the Year 1906.
R. J. DAVANT, Chairman.
3. F. FKEEMAU. JAS. H. MCEJSNNA.
JOHN F. GLATIGNY. W. H. WRIGHT.
FIRE DEPAETMENT.
JOHN E. MAGUIRE____________-Superintendent
T. D. BRUNSON_______Acting Assistant Superintendent
P. J. MAGUIRE__________Clerk and Storekeeper
"W. A. HANCOCK___________Acting Electric Inspector
"W. D. CLAIBORNE_________Superintendent Fire Alarm
FRANK J. KILROY___________Fire Inspector
BOLL OF HONOR.
Members of Department December 31st, 1906.
October l?th, 1902, Foreman Arthur M. Rogers, Meritorious Service.
September 8th, 1903, Driver John L. Lady, Courageous
Conduct.
September 8th, 1903, Fireman John P. Dnffy, Meritorious Service.
September 14th, 1903, Driver Hugh J. Larkin, Courageous Conduct.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 59
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
Office of the Superintendent of the Fire Department.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1907.
To THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN,
Of the City of Savannah,
GENTJ^MENI have the honor to submit my annual
report of the operations and condition of the Fire Department of the City for the year ending December 31st, 1906.
This report being the Seventeenth Annual Eeport of
the Paid Fire Department.
The total force of the Department at the close of the
year was eighty-seven men, as follows:
1 Superintendent.
1 Acting Assistant Superintendent.
1 Clerk and Storekeeper.
1 Superintendent of Fire Alarm.
1 Acting Electric Inspector.
1 Fire Inspector.
5 Foremen of Engine Companies.
60 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
1 Acting Foreman of Engine Companies.
6 Assistant Foremen of Engine Companies.
2 Foremen of Chemical and Hose Companies.
2 Assistant Foremen of Chemical and Hose Companies,
6 Engineers of Steamers.
19 Drivers.
2 Tillermen.
38 Firemen.
During the year the following changes were made in
the force:
1 Clerk; 2 Asst. Foremen; 1 Engineer and 12 Firemen
resigned.
5 Firemen were discharged.
The Asst. Superintendent and 2 Firemen were killed
in the discharge of duly.
2 Firemen were made Asst. Foremen.
1 Foreman was made Acting Asst. Superintendent and
1 Asst. Foreman was made Acting Foreman.
1 Asst. Foreman was made Engineer.
The Fire Inspector was made Clerk; 2 Firemen were
reinstated and 16 Firemen were appointed, leaving the
force seven (7) "short of the number authorized by City
ordinance.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 61
FOBGE BY COMPANIES.
Fire Station No. 1.
518-520-522 Broughton Street East.
Name Capacity In Service
D. P. Murphy______ Foreman __________ 8 years
T. Flynn__________Assistant Foreman ___ 8 "
Jos A. Goette______ Engineer _ 2 "
W. J. Cleary________Driver Engine _____-_22 "
T. J. Fogerty______.Driver Wagon 8 "
J. P. Duffy________.Fireman 9 "
W. F. Carrick______Fireman _____ 3 "
J. A. Lane, Jr________ Fireman 1 "
Geo. F. Byrnes______ Fireman _________ 1%"
E. T. Morrissey_____ Fireman _______ 5 "
Fire Station No. 2.
Headquarters, Indian and West Broad Streets.
Name Capacity In Service
A. J. Gannon, Jr_____ Acting Foreman __ 5 years
J. V. Bordnave-_____Engineer ____-35 "
T. F. Lorett_______Driver Engine _____ 8 "
L. F. Henderson_____ Driver Wagon _____ 8 "
John Cooper_______ Driver Truck __________ 8 "
B. Leddy_________ Tillerman ________ 8 "
Jas. J. Whalen______.Driver Supt's. Buggy _ 3 "
M. J. Eoach_ ______Fireman _________ 6 "
J. M. Hanly_______-Fireman _________ 5 "
G. F. Kilro?________Fireman _________ 2
J. H. Alien. Fireman _____________ 8 mos.
I. A. Heery__Fireman _________ 7 "
J. W. Whalen______-Fireman _________ 6 "
D. S. O'Connor______Fireman _________ 2 "
J. R. Wohanka______ Fireman _________ .2 "
62 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Fire Station No. 3.
Central Station, Oglethorpe Avenue and Abereorn Street.
Name Capacity In Service
A. J. Toshach______ Foreman 20 years
C. V. Egense_______Assistant Foreman ___16 "
H. Elliott__________Engineer _________ 6 "
J. A. McGrath______ Driver Engine _____ 6 "
T. G. Kearney______Driver Wagon _____ 3 "
Thos. Dillon________-Driver Truck ______ 6 "
F. Goritz__________ Tillerman ________ 6 "
V. S. Pacetti_______Driv. Asst. Supt's. Buggy 3 "
J. C. Sheahan_______Fireman __________ 3 "
C. R. Harrison__________ Fireman _________ 6 "
J. C. Hirt_ ________ Fireman ________ 6 "
B. E. Sheppard______Fireman __________ 2 "
C. W. Stein________ Fireman __________ 1 "
M. E. Harvey____Fireman ___________ 2 mos.
E. J. Storey________Fireman __________ 2 "
Leo. D. Walsh______ Fireman __________ 2 "
Fire Station No. 4.
606 Barnard Street.
Name Capacity In Service
A. P. McFarland_____ Foreman _________20 years
J. J. Hearn________ Assistant Foreman ___10 "
W. J. Futch______.-Engineer __________ 8 "
J. C. Bailey________Driver Engine ______ 3 "
Geo. C. Donnelly_____-Driver Wagon _____16 "
W. H. Remley______-Driver Truck ______ 5 "
C. W. Ellis_________Fireman __________ 4 "
H. F. Corley_______-Fireman __________16 "
J. D. C. SehroederFireman __________ 5 "
J. L. LadyFireman ___________ 6 "
R. C. SmithFireman __________ 2 "
J. H. Roley________ Fireman _________ 1 "
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 63
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Fire Station No. 5.
11 Henry Street, East.
Name Capacity In Service
C. C. Steinberg______Foreman __31 years
J. O'Leary________.Assistant Foreman 13 "
C. A. Christians______Engineer ____15 "
M. F. Sullivan______-Driver Engine __ 4 "
J. B. Barthelmess____ Driver Wagon _________10 "
R. W. Harris_______Fireman _____ 2 "
Fire Station No. 6.
Thirty-Eighth and Barnard Streets.
Name Capacity In Service
C. M. Burnham_____ Foreman ____-___10 years
D. V. Whitaker_____-Assistant Foreman ___ 7 "
L. Trebony________.Engineer _________17 "
W. B. Jones________Driver Engine _________ 7 "
F. H. Thompson_____Driver Wagon _____10 "
S. W. Peck________ Fireman __________ 1 "
J. H. Monsees_______ .Fireman __________ 1 "
Walter Wilkinson____ Fireman __________ 3 mos.
Chemical Company No. 1
Central Station, Oglethorpe Avenue and Abercorn Street.
Name Capacity In Service
A. M. Rogers............Foreman ____10 years
E. J. Glass..............Assistant Foreman __21 "
G. E. Johnson.......... .Driver __________ 6 "
B. B. Hearn.............Fireman __________ 6 "
H. W. Wright...........Fireman _________ 2 mos.
64 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Hose Company No. 1.
515 Waldburg Street, East.
Name Capacity
J. J. Conolly______Foreman ________
In Service
.__23 years
Thos. Hamilton_____.Assistant Foreman ___13 "
H. J. Larkin_________ Driver __________16 "
W. W. Pringle______Fireman __________10 "
______________.Fireman _______________
The expenses were sub-divided as follows:
Salaries _______________________$70,217 39
Printing and Stationery _______________ 151 67
Feed for Stock ___________________ 5,646 19
Horse Shoeing ____________________ 537 50
Medicine for Stock __________________ 86 80
Treatment of Sick Stock______________ 399 75
Additional Stock ___________________ 1,700 00
Bedding for Stock ______________-___ 40 00
Harness and Repairs to Same____________ 174 43
Repairs to Apparatus ________________ 882 77
Engine and Coal and Wood________-_ 86 25
Stove and Heater Coal and Wood________ 837 95
Gas and Illuminating 051___. __________ 626 83
Lubricating Oil and Waste ______-__ 80 65
Soda and Acid _______________ 61 51
Beds and Bedding for Men_______.. 16 50
Miscellaneous Shop Tools _____________ 17 62
Furniture and Fixtures 361 79
Implements of the Service_______ - 108 21
Paints, Varnish, etc. _______ 19 94
Repairs to Buildings ______,_____-_____ 441 07
Additional Hose ____________ 4,600 00
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 65
Boxes, Instruments, Wire, Tools, etc., Fire Alarm $124 28
Telephone Bent ______________ 656 60
Cleaning Tools, etc. _________________ 317 17
Repairs to Heaters __________ 16 54
Ice __________________________ 111 30
Surgeon's Fees ___________________ 17 00
Bent of Houses___________________ 65 00
Extra Labor on Fire Alarm________ 26 25
Incidentals _____________________ 184 97
Pensions _______________________ 240 00
$88,853 93
ESTIMATED VALUE OF DEPARTMENT PROPERTY.
Fire Station No. 1_________________$ 20,750 00
Fire Station No. 2_________________ 26il95 00
Fire Station No. 3__________________ 50,955 00
Fire Station No. 4_________________ 21,514 00
Fire Station No. 5_________________ 14,820 00
Fire Station No. 6__________________ 10,530 00
Chemical Station No. 1______________ 3,364 00
Hose Station No. 1_____________________ 3,862 00
Fire Alarm System ________________ 29,446 00
Miscellaneous ___________ 3,435 00
$184,871 00
66 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
EXPENSES BY STATIONS.
Fire Station No. 1_________________$ 8,685 43
Fire Station No. 2__________________ 14,711 83
Fire Station No. 3__________________ 13,428 88
Fire Station No. 4_________________ 10,856 59
Fire Station No. 5__________________ 7,359 72
Fire Station No. 6___________________ 7,037 58
Chemical Station No. 1_______________ 4,855 86
Hose Station No. 1__________________ 3,800 60
Fire Alarm _______________________ 829 03
General Expenses ____________ j____ 16,817 94
Supplies ________^___ 470 47
$88,853 93
DESCRIPTION OF ROLLING STOCK.
Engines.
Engine No. 11st Size Double Pomp La France.
Engine No. 2Double Extra 1st Size Double Pump La
France.
Engine No. 31st Size Double Pump La France.
Engine No. 43rd Size Double Pump La France.
Engine No. 55th Size Double Pump La France.
Engine No. 62nd Size Single Pump Amoskeg.
Reserve Engine No. 72nd Size Double Pump La
France.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 67
Condemned Engine No. 82nd Size Single Pump Jeffers; Unfit for service of any character.
Hose Traders.
No. 1One Two-horse Wagon.
No. 2One Two-horse Wagon (See Combinations).
No. 3One Two-horse Wagon.
No. 4One Two-horse Wagon.
No. 5One Two-horse Wagon. (See Combinations.)
No. 6One Two-horse Wagon. (See Combinations.)
Hose No. 1One Two-horse Wagon.
ReserveOne One-horse Eeel.
Chemical Engines.
Chemical No. 1One Holloway double-tank, 85 gallons each.
Hook and Ladder Trucks.
No. 1Haye's Aerial Extension, 55 feet.
No. 2Leverich Wood Frame Tiller Truck, 52 feet
extension.
No. 3Rumsey & Co.'s Light Steel-frame City Truck.
(See Combinations.)
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Combinations.
No. 2Originally Holloway Combination with double
tanks, 35 gallons each. One tank taken off.
No. 5Tank from Holloway Chemical Engine placed
under seat of hose wagon.
No. 6Originally Holloway Chemical Engine, with
double tanks, 65 gallons each; remodeled in 1902, and
changed into a hose wagon with one tank under seat.
Truck No. 3Tank from Holloway Combination, hung
under truck frame.
Supply and Coal Wagons.
One Two-horse large wagon.
Three One-horse small wagons.
Officers' Vehicles.
One Superintendent's four-wheel buggy.
One Assistant Superintendent's four-wheel buggy.
Hose.
On January 1st, 1906, the Department owned 15,600
feet of hose. Since that date 2,000 feet of new hose were
purchased.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 69
500 feet of condemned hose were sold, 500 feet were
turned over to the Streets and Lanes Department and 150
feet were destroyed.
The inventory of hose on December 31st shows 16,450
feet, classed as follows:
Very good................... 13,650 feet
Good ....................... 400 "
Poor ........................ 700 "
Chemical Hose, Good.......... 900 "
Chemical Hose, Fair........... 50 "
Useless ..................... 750 "
Total ...................16,450 "
Horses.
On January 1, 1906 there were in service 45 horses.
During this year the horses, "Item" and "Schley" were
condemned and sold. Three horses "Jack", "Jasper" and
"Prince" died; and "Hoe" was killed in a collision with a
street car. Five new horses were purchased and threes are
now on trial. The new horses "Dick" purchased in October is and always has been unfit for the service. "Sailor,"
"Aetor" and "Mack" are condemned and should be disposed of. We now have 47 horses, four of which are unfit
for our service and it is with much difficulty that I am able
to render the service required by the department.
Apparatus.
During the year the repairs to apparatus were much
greater than those of the previous year. The majority of
70' MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
the apparatus were overhauled, tires were reset and a number of them were painted.
A new boiler was purchased from the American-La
France Fire Engine Company and placed on No. 6 Engine
and a new set of valves and springs were ordered.
New flues were put in No. 3 Engine and No. 4 Engine
was thoroughly overhauled.
Injuries to Employee.
January 17th, Driver C. B. Harrison, Engine No. 3,
slightly injured in collision with street car at Habersham
St., and Oglethorpe Ave.
January 29th, E, V. Pacetti, Engine No. 3, fell from engine responding to box 19, skinning his face and legs severelyJanuary 27th, G. F. KHroy, Engine
ankle, sliding down pole in response to
Off duty 16 days.
No. 2, Sprained
telephone alarm.
March 26th, G. F. Kilroy, Engine No. 2, fell down pole
hole, in response to fire alarm, spraining ankle. Off duly
11 days.
March 27th, Driver H. J. Larkin, Hose Co, No. 1, injured by harness hanger striking him in the month while
driving out of the station in response to the fire alarm;
bruising his face and knocking out one tooth.
March 29th, Foreman A. M. Rogers, Chemical No. 1,
hands and face severely burned at fire in A. C. L. yard. Off
duty 32 days and 7 hours,
MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 71
. March 29th, Fireman V. S. Pacetti, Chemical No. 1,
severely burned on hands and face in A. C. L. yard. Off
duty 10 days and 7 hours
March 29th, Fireman G. E. Johnson, Chemical No. 1,
hands slightly burned at fire in A. C. L. yard. Not off duty.
No time lost.
March 29th, Fireman H. W. Sasser, Engine No. 3,
sprained ankle at fire A. C. L. Yard. Off duty 8 days.
April 2nd, Fireman H. 3. Eady, Engine No. 3, sprained
ankle at fire box 28. Off duty 2 days.
April 21st, Fireman E. Barton, Engine No. 3, injured
wrist by falling from No. 3 wagon while responding to
alarm from box 7. Off duty 5 days.
August 2nd, Asst. Foreman Thos. Hamilton, Hose Sta.
No. 1, run down by automobile while on his way to supper,
slightly bruised. No time lost.
October 9, Fireman J. H. Alien, Engine No. 2, stepped
on nail at fire Southern Asphalt Works. Off duty 21 hours.
October 23rd, Asst. Foreman J. J. Hearn, Engine No. 4,
severely burned on hands at fire West Broad and Berrien
Sts., box 35. Off duty 8 days.
October 23rd, Driver W. H. Remley, Engine No. 4, < ut
hand severely at fire West Broad and Berrien Sts., box 35.
No time lost.
November 2nd, Driver E. W. Harris, Engine No. 5,
Thumb severely cut while hitching horses in response to
alarm from box 39. Off duty 26 days.
72 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
December 19th, Asst. Foreman Jeremiah OTJeary, Engine No. 5, severely burned about hands and face by explosion at fire works factory at Anderson and Burroughs
Sts. Still in St. Joheph's Infirmary tinder treatment.
Accidents to Horses.
January 17th, "Joe" of No. 3 Engine killed in collision with street car while on exercise at Oglethorpe Ave.,
and Habersham St.
January 19th, "Belmont" of No. 3 Engine out of service for 8 days, lame and sore eyes, result of collision with
street car at Oglethorpe Ave. and Habersham St. on January 17.
June 8th, "Beauty" of No. 3 Truck slightly bruised in
collision with street car at Berrien and West Broad Sts.,
while responding to telephone alarm.
June 12th, "Miles" and "Troy" of No. 4 Wagon
knocked down by live electric wire at fire box 34 at 12.15
A. M. Not seriously injured.
October 23rd, "Johnnie" No. 3 Engine fell while responding to fire alarm box 35,'bruising and skinning side
and legs. Out of service 6 days and 6 hours.
Accidents to Apparatus.
January 17, No. 3 Engine in collision with street car at
Oglethorpe Ave. and Habersham St., while on exercise.
Pole bracket and brake broke.
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74 MAYOR'S ANNUAL. REPORT.
June 8th, No. 3 Truck in collision with street car at
Berrien and West Broad Sts, while responding to telephone alarm. No damage.
June 9th, No. 1 Wagon broke rear axle while responding to telephone alarm at A. C. L. wharf.
August 18th, No. 4 Wagon broke front axle while responding to fire alarm from box 64.
October 14th, Tire on left rear wheel No. 2 Wagon
broke while responding to telephone alarm.
October 19, Truck No. 1 collided with tree at Oglethorpe Ave., and East Broad St., while answering fire alarm
from box 17, breaking tiller lock.
November 8th, No. 2 Wagon broke left rear tire while
responding to fire alarm from box 56, damaging mud
guards and foot board.
November 8th, Bear axle of No. 2 Wagon found to be
cracked after fire alarm from box 56 and replaced by new
axle.
November 15, Left rear tire on No. 2 Truck broke
while responding to fire alarm from box 18.
December 9th, No. 1 Wagon broke rear axle while responding to fire alarm from box 212.
December 15, Wagon of Hose Sta. No. 1, rear spring
block broke while responding to telephone alarm.
December 22nd, No. 3 Wagon broke rear axle while
responding to alarm for fire from box 24,
!
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 75
Buildings.
The general condition of the department buildings are
even worse than they were at the date of my last report.
The condition of Hose Station No. 1 is not only unsafe, but
is now unsanitary and objectionable to the surrounding
property owners.. In some of the houses the stalls are
about to fall down for want of necessary repairs and every
house in the department is in need of repairs and painting.
Fire Alarm System.
Little if any improvement has been made in this system, but considerable work has been done towards placing
the wires underground in the mercantile district and under
appropriation recently authorized. It is gratifying to know
that within the next two months this important work of improvement will be completed. For a more extended and
detailed report of this system I beg to refer to the report
of Superintendent of Fire Alarm W. D. Claiborne, hereto
attached.
Recommendations.
For a number of years it has been my practice to make
recommendations of such changes, additions and improvements as occurred to me to be of importance, but as I have
been signally unsuccessful in having my recommendations
seriously considered, I beg to refrain from my usual custom. At the same time I am forced to call attention to the
suggestions of the Committee of Twenty of the National
Broad of Fire Underwriters and to say that as these suggestions and recommendations cover the present needs of
76 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
the fire department they should be given prompt and
favorable consideration.
Electric Inspections.
The work of inspections of electric installations has
been ably and efficiently handled by my assistant Mr. W. A.
Hancock and I am pleased to say that the Chief Electrician
of the South Eastern Tariff Association in a recent report
compliments him on his work. The attached report shows
the work done and tha character of the same.
Alarms.
The total number of alarms was 280. Distributed as
follows:
From Street Boxes................ 73 calls
By Telephone......................171 "
By Local Calls..................... 36 "
The alarms were answered as follows:
Engine Company No. 1.............. 37 "
Engine Company No. 2.............. 61 "
Engine Company No. 3............. 78 "
Engine Company No. 4.............. 38 "
Engine Company No. 5.............. 46 "
Engine Company No. 6............. 28 "
Truck No. 1....................... 48 "
Truck No. 2....................... 26 "
Truck No. 3....................... 68 "
Chemical No. 1.................... 73 "
Hose Company No. 1................ 37 "
MAYOR'S ANNUAL HEPORT. 77
Alarms were divided as follows:
Between Eiver and Jones Streets... 142 "
Between Jones and Anderson Streets. 101 "
Between Anderson Street and Limits. 37 "
The largest number of alarms came from Street Boxes
24 and 35. A total of 5 each.
The greatest number of alarms were received during
the month of December, a total of 55. November comes
next with 35, and July shows 6 as the lowest of any month
during the year.
Saturday is credited with the greatest number, 50, and
Sunday with the smallest, 28.
The largest number occurred between the hours of 6 A.
M. and noon, 104, and the smallest number between the
hours 12 o'clock midnight and 6 A. M., 29.
Causes.
The causes, as ascertained, were as follows:
Smoke Issuing.....................211
Explosions ........................ 11
Foul Chimney...................... 34
False and Test...................... 22
Beyond City Limits................. 2
Of these 67' occurred in brick or stone buildings, 149 in
wooden buildings, and 64 in other than buildings, and they
were brought about in heating, 155; in illuminating, 24; in
other ways, 101. The fires were found in dwellings, 147; in
business houses, 66; other than buildings, 67.
78 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
The direct causes of fires were attributed to the following causes:
Pool Chimneys..................... 36
Carelessness ....................... 23
False and Test ..................... 22
Plying Sparks ..................... 35
Defective Flues.................... 17
Explosion of Lamps, etc.............. 11
Unknown ......................... 36
Electric Wires ..................... 13
Defect in Construction .............. 27
Incendiary and Supposed Incendiary. 7
Out of City ........................ 2
Miaehevious Children ............... 19
Overheated Stoves, etc............... 8
Other Causes ...................... 24
Two hundred and twenty six were confined to point of
origin, or before they had made any headway.
Twenty-two were confined to the floor on which they
originated, nineteen were confined to the building in which
they originated, and nineteen extended to adjoining buildings.
Losses.
The total for the year was $119,720.98; divided as follows:
On Buildings......................... .$41,811.90
On Contents.......................... 77,909.08
The greatest loss occurred during the month of September and smallest during the month of July.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 79
The total loss was 4.3 per cent of the value of the property involved.
The follownig comparative statement is respectfully
submitted.
1890............ 169 $139.486.84 13.2
1891............ 190 345,265.84 19.2
1892............ 208 166,837.46 11.8
1893............ 183 . 172,986.39 7.8
1894............ 168 452,407^36 9.6
1895............ 179 112,645.26 5.8
1896............ 196 390,970.23 11.2
1897............ 195 96,293.75 4.3
1898............ 293 440,630.78 10.2
1899............ 238 153,599.83 6.4
1900............225 41,837.00 3.3
1901............ 263 61,743.75 5.7
1902.......;....261 54,157.50 3.6
1903............263 93,675.90 5.5
1904............ 286 183,420.50 10.2
1905............ 315 80,232.50 2.6
1906............ 280 119,720.98 4.3
In conclusion I beg to submit the attached tabulated
statement of alarms, fires, their causes, locations, etc.
I beg to tender to his honor, the Mayor, the Committee
of Fire, and the Board of Aldermen, my thanks for favors
shown me during the past year.
. I thank the officers and members of the Police Department for assistance rendered, and I commend the officers and
men of this Department for the failthfulness with which
they have performed their duties.
Very respectfully,
JOHN E. MAGUIBE, Superintendent.
80 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Value of Property and Loss by Fire1906.
Percentage of Loss to Property Involved 4.3 per cent.
MO-NTH SH*
lovoh
1
January __________ f 208,4!
February _________ - 169,4
March...- - 72,8
April __. 46,5,
May. -...--- ___ -._ 57,a
June __ .-.._ ___ 694,2<
July . -- 4,
August.. _ 41,5(
September ________ 151,6
October __ . _ .. 265,1
November. . 839,0,
December.... ____ 250,2!
Total _ . ___ __ .12,801,6
of LOSS
rtJ
red Buildings Contents
1 1
20 00 S 1,950 40 (22,169 00
50 00 868 00 836 '00
75 00 2,008 50 1,282 00
i8 00 1,054 00 914 00
50 00 790 00! 585 00
J5 00 1,822 50 2,745 75
5000 65 00 .........
30 00 1.789 75' 1,775 00
J5 00 18,456 75 19,182 83
35 00' 9,807 00 19,521 75
57 00' 1,270 00 1,411 00
JO 00 2,430 00 7,537 25
Total Loss
$ 24.119 40
1,70400
8,29050
1,96800
1.325 00
4.568 25
6500
8,564 75
37,63908
28,828 75
2,681 00
9,96725
15 00141,811 90>77,909 08i $119,720 9
Alarms1906Manner of Receipts.
MONTHS
January. ....
March ____ . _____ ...
April --
May --- -
June
July..- ......
August
September. -
October- .
T\fu*fi'm"hff
Total _______ .
, Street
Box
.-..' 7
8
8
4
5
..-- 3
2
_~- 6
6 7
.--- 9
13
- 73
Telephone
14
19
16
16
6
15
4
4
7
19
17
84
171
Local
1
6
3
1
2
1
1
2
2
9
8
86
TOTAL
22
28
27
21
13
19
6
11
15
28
85
55
280
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 81
Alarms 1906Cause of Same.
MONTHS
January. .._..__ ........
March _ ___.._ .
April -_--_. __ .....
TLfnv
June
July ___ .-__. _ ------
August. _
September.... _--.-_-...
October- .
November.-. .-...-
December- .-.__ ._
Total __ - _....
t
a
jg! O-l
S
OQ
19
17
21
15
9
14
4
9
18
22
26
42
211
Explosions
1
1
1
2
1
2
8
11
Foul
Chimneys
1
9
8
8
1
4
1
5
4
8
84
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fe
i
i
8
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
7
22
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i
i
2
TOTAL
22
28
27
21
21
19
6
11
15
28
85
55
280
Origin of Fires1906.
MONTHS
anuary. -
*ebruary_ ._.
larch _ _._._
.pril ____
fnv
une.. - -.
uly_ __.
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eptember.
ctober --
ovember _ -.
ecember---.-
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" Total. ....
In Heating
&
_a
1
O
5
17
8
11
8
9
2
2
5
14
10ia
8
8
1
4
1
4
8
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8
8
5
2
99 1 27
A
s
2
2
2
2
....
1
1
"7"
11
29
1
11
20
14
18
8
12
8
5
9
17
22
26
155
Illuminating
1
O
1
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8
8
2
1
1
1
2
16
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2
1
1
1
2
1
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....
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....
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I
8
1
2
4 ' 4
9
1
8
2
2
24
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8
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2
1
1
1
6
4
9
82
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8
8
8
2
8
1
2
4
1
4
5
81
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5
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5
2
4
2
2
2
1
2
1
1
8
18
88
1
S
11
5
12
6
6
8
1
5
6
8
11
27
101
82 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Cause of Fires1906.
MONTHS
February. ________
March---....-----
April _ -- .___
May
I Mischievous |Children 1!Eleotrlo Wires
4(
i 2
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2
121
1
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1 1
^__ 2
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3
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1
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1
2
1
7
|Flying Sparks
4
2
3
5
1
IUnknown
1
2
4
2
8
91
? 3
1
4
8
5
35
4
3
5
7
36
|Explosions
1
1
'1
2
"i
2
3
11
|Chimney Foul
1
g
Q
8
1
4
1
~5
5
4
36
IFalse andTesta
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
?,
2
"2
7
22
|of City Out
.
-1
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2
&
1
"i
2
~8
1
4
2
11
24
1
22
28
27
21
13
19
6
11
15
28
85
55
280
Fire Statistics1906.
MONTHS
January.. _ _____ ________
February. __ . _ __ __ ..
March-... ----- ____ . ...
April __.. _ .--..
May .--.. ___ ..__.-
June. _ . __ . _ _ ___ __
July.__ _. . _
August ________ ___ ...
September. __ __ ___ ____
October.. _ __ _____ _
November... _ . __ ..._. _ .
December.. -.___ . __ _ ..
Total. __ ._ ___ . _
FIRE
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IN
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5
6
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14
15
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19
18
26
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7
4
6
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8
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MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 88
Savannah, Ga., December 31, 1906.
Mr. John E. Maguire,
Superintendent Fire Department.
Dear SirI herewith respectfully submit by report
from January 1st., to December 31, 1906, inclusive:
The following installations were made:
Incandescent lights ............................... 10,091
Fixtures for Incandescent Lights................... 4,934
. Electric Fans .................................... 348
Electric Motors .................................. 70
Arc Lights ....................................... 174
Electric Signs .................................... 11
Wiring for other electric service, instruments, etc..... 94
A total of 1700 inspections were made and fees to the
amount of $588.75 were collected by the City Treasurer. The
above report includes inspections of wiring and other
electric service for temporary work.
Very respectfully,
W. A. HANCOCK,
Acting Electric Inspector.
84 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Report of Fire Alarm Telegraph.
Savannah, Ga., January 1, 1907.
Mr. John E. Maguire,
Superintendent Fire Department.
Dear SirI have the pleasure to submit the following report of the Fire Alarm Telegraph Service for the
year ending December 31, 1906.
During the year 244 alarms were turned in over the
lines of the alarm system. Telephones are credited with
171 and the alarm boxes with 73.
For Fire................................222
For Daily Test..........................313
For False and Test...................... 22
Total ..............................557
The Fire Alarm consists of the following:
1 8-circuit controlling board.
190 Cells of chloride accumulators (6 ampere hour
Type "T.")
1 12-cireuit automotic repeater.
83 Street boxes.
90 Poles.
2 Bell strikers.
6 Combination gongs and indicators.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 85
2 18 inch gongs.
41 1 2 Miles insulated copper wire, No. 10 and No.
12.
3 Indicators.
5 Electric trips.
8 6 inch gongs.
Expenses.
Salary ..........................................$600.00
Boxes, wire, tools, etc............................ 124.28
Extra Labor on System ......................... 26.25
Expenses Superintendent to Convention............ 50.00
Total ......................................$800.53
During the year one new box was received and installed: Box 48, East Broad and Hartridge Sts.
Recommendations.
That the Superintendent of Fire Alarm and Police
Telegraph be provided with a competent assistant.
That a register be provided at headquarters for every
circuit.
That the mechanism in all boxes be changed so as to
include platinum point breaks and non-interfering mechanism, eventually with successive attachment.
That not less than 18 of the old boxes be replaced.
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That all boxes have keys attached, either or without
a glass guard, and until keys are attached, that a sign be
immediately posted near every box indicating where the
keys may be found.
That boxes be painted red and be furnished with red
lights wherever practicable.
That not less than 12 additional boxes be installed at
once and the policy of continued additions be adopted for
the future. Localities now in need of boxes are: Near
Reynolds Square, Oglethorpe Avenue, two locations; Gaaton, near Montgomery Street; two or three locations in
Collinsville; three locations near Barnard Street, south of
"Waldburg Street, etc.
That special circuits be provided for the tower bells,
to be operated by a manual transmitter, and that the
gongs in the department houses be connected to additional
special circuits.
That the overhead wiring be put in good shape, all
sections having defective insulation be replaced.
That all alarms be sent to the electric light and power
companies and to the gas company.
That every box be tested at'least once a month.
That proper provision should be made whereby towboats shall receive all alarms of fire.
That the Superintendent of Fire Alarm be provided
with a suitable office so that he may be enabled to keep
proper records of the system.
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I am glad to say that the following recommendations
of last year are being complied with: The Fire Alarm
headquarters being installed in a fire proof building.
That special circuits are being provided for the tower
bells to be operated by a manual transmitter and that the
gongs in Stations No. 1, 2 and 3 are to be connected to an
additional special circuit, and that $5,000.00 has been spent
placing our wires underground, which includes the following boxes: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 23, 25, 36, 42,
45, 47, 54, 58, 81, 82 and 91. This work has been done by
day labor and I have looked after the work personally.
The work .consisted of the following: 4000 feet of paper
fibre ducts in cement, 21 pedestals, the drawing in of 25,-
000 feet of 5, 10 and 20 pair cable. "When this work is
completed nearly all of the boxes north of Liberty Street
between East Broad and West Broad Streets and the
boxes in close proximity to the trunk lines on Drayton
and Abercorn Streets as far South as Henry Street, will
be underground, Stations No. 1, 2 and 3-will also have underground connections. When this work is completed the
mercantile distrct will be as well protected from a fire
alarm (from a fire, alarm standpoint) as money and labor
can make it.
In conclusion, I desire to thank you for the confidence you have shown in me, and for the many favors extended me during the past twelve months.
Very respectfully,
W. D. CLAIBOENB,
Superintendent Fire Alarm.
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Mr. E. A. M. Sehroeder, Chairman.
Committee on Police,
Savannah, Ga.
Dear SirIn making out your budget for 1907 for the
Police Department, I respectfully ask that you include
$10,000 for improvements to the Police Gamewell System.
$5,000 of this appropriation will be expended in placing wires underground in that portion of the city between
East Broad and West Broad and north of Gaston street;
also the main trunk lines as far south as 40th street.
$5,000 for general improvement, which would include
an operating table to be equipped with all the latest apparatus for signalling and talking; also remodeling of all
the present street boxes, which will necessitate returning
them to the factory. They should be equipped with the
latest devices. This appropriation would be sufficient to
renew and repair all wires, poles, cross arms, etc. in the
district not covered by the underground system.
The $10,000 applied as outlined above would place all
our wires underground where the conduit space of the
various companies is available and would make the entire
system one of the most substantial and up-to-date in the
South.
The present system having been in use about 16 years
is now obsolete and entirely inadequate for the present requirements.
Yours truly,
W. D. CLAIBORNE,
Supt. Gamewell System.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER.
Dr. Statement of Cash Received and Disbursed from January 1st, 1906, to December 31st, 1906. Cr.
Cash in Treasury Jan. 1st, 1906
CITY LOTS
Received from R. R. Oakman
for north part of Lot No. 31
Reppard Ward ....______ $437 76
Received from Reppard Snedeker & Co. for part of north-
era part of Lot No. 37, Reppard Ward ..__--__..__ 250 00
Received from Carl Mendel for
Lot No. 93, Owens Ward.. 1,100 00
Received from C. Ellis for the
north part of Lots Nos. 39 and
40, Reppard Ward ______ 454 81
Received from the Investment
Company for Lots Nos. 32 and
40, Owens Ward ____-__ 7,200 00
Received from Norton Frierson,
Jr., for north parts of Lots
Nos. 40 and 41, Reppard Ward 800 00
$ 43,875 77 BOARD OF HEALTH
Salaries of Health Officer, City
Physicians, Keeper of Pest
Houso and time of Hands....
Printing Mortuary Reports, Circulars, etc. .._______..
Coffins and Wagons for Paupers
Rent of Telephone...____.--._-.
Articles Destroyed ....._.._
Vaccine Points, Forage, Postage, etc. .__.________
Chief Sanitary Inspector for use
of Buggy ._.____..._.
$17,536 21
158 27
182 50
158 00
15 00
1,415 66
300 00 19,765 64
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for Lot 91, Owens Ward, and
parts of 1 and 2 south aide of
86th Street ..._.....__.. .
Received from L. L, Carswell
for the northern portion of
Lots 34 and 35, Cummlnga
Ward -... ._._
BILBO CANAL
Received from the Director of
Public Works, proceeds of sale
of old material, etc...___
700 00
1,200 00 12,142 57
249 80 249 80
BILBO CANAL IMPROVEMENTS
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Material, Tools, etc, ..___.. 4,077 99 9,166 79
CHARITY
Mrs. Harris ____....__....._ 156 00
Mrs. McStay ....._..__.___.. 144 00
Mrs. Kalne .....__....____ 144 00
Mrs. Fender ..__....._.__ 144 00
Mrs. Kearney -_;_._.__ 36 00
Mary McLean Circle.______ 300 00
Savannah Orphans' Benevolent
Society ._------.-..___. 480 00
Savannah Orphan Asylum.__ 480 00
King's Daughters ....._.__ 480 00
Young Men's Christian Association, Refunded for Paving
Jones Street _______-_ 120 33
Clerk of Council expended for
Charity ....___._..._ 1,290 38
Working People's Home __-_ 300 00
Georgia Historical Society
Taxes Refunded ______ 102 50 4,177 21
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Attending City Clocks___.... 262 50 262 50
CITY HALLNEW
Furniture, etc__...__......_. 18,385 35
Statues __-_..._____ 2,800 00
Lighting Fixtures ..__ 2,000 00
Architect ___..______ 3,989 12 Q
Incidentals ______ 325 04
Final Payment _______ 31,021 35
Howard Clock Company._ 2,890 00
Fountain ......--__.... 2,075 50 63,484 36
CITY HALL MAINTENANCE
Salary of Custodian and Time
of Hands ..___._.._ 3,079 70
Insurance ...__.__.__........ 912 02 $8
Curbing and Sidewalks__..... 1,032 55
Souvenirs ___......_.._ 400 00
Fuel, Lights and Other Incidentals ---------._-.-- 3,415 62 8,839 79
CITY LAMPS
Lighting Streets from Dec, 1st,
1905, to Nov. 30th, 1906___ 37,934 97 37,934 97
DRY CULTURE
Time of Hands_____...._ 10,674 17
Material, Tools, etc______.. 770 29 11,344 46
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DISPENSARY
Salary of Keeper and Assistants 2,255 00
Rent of Building......._...__ 48000 g
Drugs -..._-___.. 1,368 74 H
Rent of Telephone...____ 50 00
Lights, Fuel, etc..__.......__ 554 39 4,708 13
EMMET PARK
Time of Hands __....___.. 315 63
River Sand, etc. ..... 77 25
Sidewalks ____.__..__.. 1,008 00 1,400 78
ELECTRIC FEES
Received from Sundry Persons
for Electric Fees - 688 88
FEES
Received from Harbor Fees for
year ending Dec. 31st, 1906 5,511 21
Received from Clerk of Council
for permits __________ 147 60
Received from City Marshal for
Executions -__-- 1,067 80
ELECTRIC FEES
Salary of Electrician... 80 00
Repairs to Bicycle, Printing and
688 88 Stationery _ 29 20
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Pay Roll __..._.._______ 67,616 56
Attending Sick Stock__.. . 486 55
Horses __-._.__ . 1,700 00
6,726 51 Harness and Repairs to same 174 43
Repairs to Engines-___ 1,882 77
Oil, Paint, Fuel, etc._.... 2,168 12
Repairs to Buildings ...___- 441 07
Hose, etc...____..__-- 4,600 00
Incidentals, etc____ 296 27
Tools and Repairs__.__.. 443 00
Furniture and Fixtures_ 361 79
Rent of Telephones-_ 656 60
Fire Alarm -----__..-- 5,202 42
Surgeon's Fees .._ 17 00
Beds and Bedding for Men.- 16 50
Repairs to Heaters 16 64
Extra Labor on Fire... 26 25
Pensions ______-_____-- 240 00
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Received from the Superintendent, proceeds of Bale old material, hose, etc.....____
GROUND RENTS
Received from Ground Rents
GROUND RENT LOTS
Received from balance due on
Ground Rent Lots ____..
HARBOR AND WHARVES
Received from the Harbor Master, proceeds of sale of old
Buggy and Horse__.___..
358 05 35S OS
5,996 44 5,996 44
3,342 25 3,342 25
22 50
Printing and Stationery.
Forage ........_....-
Shoeing __..__
Bedding for Stock.-
Rent for House._.......
151 67
6,646 19
537 50
40 00
65 00
FIRE AND POLICE UNIFORMS
Firemen's Uniforms, Shirts,
Caps, etc....__.______
Police Uniforms, Helmets, etc..
GRADING STREETS
4,000 22-
3,867 01-
92,686 23
4,000 22
3,867 01
Time of Hands__....___... 1,542 47 ^
Material etc..........._.___ 13 25 1,555 72
HARBOR AND WHARVES H
Salary of Clerk__________ 1,132 13
Expenses of Horse and Buggy.. 240 00
Hire of Horse.-..---..____ 42 00
Rent of Telephone...._____ 25 00
Expenses of Commissioners of
Pilotage for 1906.___ 75 00
22 50 Fuel, Postage, Lights, etc___ 213 70 1,727 83
HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS
Expenses of Committee to Washington and Advertising___ 292 90 292 90
HOSPITALS
Savannah Hospital, keeping City
Patients for year_______ 3,000 00 j>*
St. Joseph Infirmary, keeping
City Patients for year_____ 3,00000
Georgia Infirmary, keeping City
Patients for year_ 4,500 00
Park View Sanitarium, keeping
City Patients for year_.. 3,000 00 ^
Charity Hospital, keeping City F
Patients for year____.. 900 00 14,400 00
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INCIDENTALS
Telegrams, Postage, etc____.... 903 94
Premium on Bonds City Officers
and Employes__...__.__v. 239 50
City Marshal for use of Buggy. 240 00
Pasting Coupons from City of
Savannah Bonds .....-. 100 00
Compiling Ordinances _.__ 100 00 f*
INCIDENTALS
Received from the National
Bank of Savannah for Interest
on daily balances..____.. 4,075 89
Received for Surveys and making plats ___.___ 288 00
Received from City Marshal for
interest on Executions..._ 308 62
Received from the Foreman of
the City for Pound Fees.__ 43 00
City Marshal Attending Convention _____ ____ ____ 85 00
Rental of Telephones..___.._ 192 00
Expenses of Committee to
Washington, D. C______ 77 00
American Exchange National
Bank for Paying Coupons from
City of Savannah Bonds..._ 123 10
Insurance ____..__ __ 344 97
Cost of Court and Recording
Deeds ..__.___-.___.. 243 30
Incidentals .____..._.-_- 787 96
Young Men's Christian Association, Appropriation to Ground
Rent fee simple....._..__ 800 00
League of American Municipalities Dues for year_____.__ 4000
League of Georgia Munlclpall4,716 61 ttes Dues for year 2B 0 *.251 77
INTEREST
Coupons from City of Savannah
Bonds of issue 1879--___. 135,678 75
Coupons from City of Savannah
Bonds of issue 1883.___ 13,086 73 148,665 48
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Received for Examinations of
Plumbing __-.-.- 531 60
LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY631 50
Received from Burial Fees_____
Received from Sale of Lots..__
Received interest from City of
Savannah Bond No. 100 for
keeping lot of John M. Williams in order
LIQUOR LICENSES
Received from Liquor Licenses1,913 50
1,391 60
7 50 3,312 50
62,788 75 52,788 75
MARKET
Received from Collections ____
Received from Rent of Vaults..
Received from Rent of Stalls___
10,356 60
1,870 00
1,129 80
INSPECTION FEES
13,356 10
Salary of Inspectors__
Printing and Stationery.
2,152 50
36 65
LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY
Salary of Keeper and Time of
Hands __.__..____.. 5,643 21
Material, Tools, Flowers, Plants,
etc. ____. ___.__..__ 860 27
Rent of Telephone.__._..__ 25 00
Repairs to Buildings.._____ 30 03
LAW DEPARTMENT
City Attorney's Incidental Account _____ 460 00
MARKET
Salary of Clerk, Assistant, and
Time of Hands_______.. 3,193 50
Lighting and Fuel. ._____ 516 80
Insurance __._.______ 25 00
Cement Floor _________ 1,339 89
Material and Repairs______ 244 91
Sawdust, Soap, Brooms, etc- 598 15
2,189 15
6,558 61
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MUTER INSPECTION
Received from Testing and Inspecting Qaa Meters _____
MAINTENANCE CITY HALL
Received for difference in Insurance __ . ________
OPENING STREETS
Received from City Marshal for
Rents ..___________
8 00
6 25
8 00
6 25
27 00 27 00
MAINTENANCE OF HOUSE
Time of Hands. _ _____
Material, etc __________
MAINTENANCE OF ASPHAI
Repairing Streets _ . ________
OPENING STREETS
Deferred Payments _ .. ......
Interest __. __ __ ...
Land Purchased ______ .._.
Recording Deeds ________
Building Fence, etc., on Fig Island ______ ..........
Time of Hands, etc.. __ .
Clerk's Salary _________
PARK AND SQUARES
Time of Hands. _____ __
' Material, Tools, etc _____ ..
Plants, etc. _____ . _ ..
Mules ..__ .. ________
Insurance . ____ ___ .
DRAINAGE
4,223 90
1,464 40 5,688 30
-T STREETS
10,938 30 10,938 CO
43,947 64
5,739 60
4,162 51
25 28
130 00
124 45
199 92 54,329 36
7,732 83
2,397 74
1,293 78
390 00
20 00 11.834 35
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Received from Office Collections 36,284 49
Received from City Marshal- 7,602 17
PARK AND SQUARES (Trees Planting and Nursery)
Time of Hands_________ 1,368 25
Material, etc. __.______._
Trees _-__-_._.___. 199 90 1,568 15
PAVING STREETS
43,886 66 Paving and Improving Streets.. 66,685 40 66,685 40
POLICE DEPARTMENTCO
Salaries ____-___.____ 92,230 91
Material and Repairs______ 590 34 %
Fuel and Lights_________ 773 03
Printing and Stationery, Postage
and Incidentals ..__ 917 84
Shoeing, Repairing Vehicles,
Harness, etc ______.__ 1,086 04
Rental of Telephones___.__ 97 50
Forage - 3,107 08
Food for Prisoners.____ 1,298 75
Medicine and Attention to Sick
Stock __-__-__._ 242 15
Horses ________ 700 00
Gamewell System ______- 73 42
Barrack Supplies ________ 784 67
Medical Attention ________ 160 00
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POLICE DEPARTMENT
Received from the Savannah
Union Station salary of Policemen ______..___
Received for Keeping Prisoners
Received from proceeds of sale
of Horse, Empty Sacks, etc..
POLICE COURT
Received from Police Court
Fines _____...____.
1,780 00
69 50
0 70 1,890 20
13,261 00 13,261 00
PRINTING AND STATIONBRYReceived from City Marshal for
Advertising _.__.__._... 131 90 131 90
W. D. Claiborne Attending Convention _.____
Dues to National Association
Bureau of information
Beds and Bedding. ....
Funeral Expenses of Policeman
P. Kearny ...
T. S, Morgan, Professional Services .._
Insurance .
POLICE RESERVES
Appropriation by Council...
POLICE COURT
Police Fines Refunded.
60 00
15 10
162 20
50 00
50 00
25 00 102,414 03
2,999 92 2,999 92
259 50 259 50
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PRINTING AND STATIONERYCity Printing, Printing Circulars. Proceedings of Council,
Mayor's Report for 1905, and
Stationery 5,091 09 5,091 09
PUBLIC BUILDING
Received from sale of o!4 Furniture _-' 662 65
RENT ACCOUNT
Received from rent of Houses-. 322 96
Received from the American
Can Co. ..___ 200 00
SAN FRANCISCO RELIEF FUNIMRecelved from Contributions 3,215 10
662 65
522 96
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Appropriation ... 3,499 92 3,499 92
RESURFACING STREETS
Time of Hands, and Material_ 2,850 08
SALARIES
2,850 08
Salaries of Aldermen, City Officers, Clerks and Auditor for
year '.__.... 47,714 22 47,714 22
SAN FRANCISCO SUFFERERS
Donated by City and Contribu3,215 10 tlon 3,215 10 3,215 10
SCAVENGER DEPARTMENT
Salary of Superintendent and
Time of Hands______. 26,094 63
Forage, Lumber, Harness, Tools,
etc. _______________ 11,444 37
Insurance _... 102 50
SCAVENGER DEPARTMENT
Received from Chatham County 3,000 00 3,000 00
SIDEWALKS DEPARTMENT
Received for Laying and Repairing Sidewalks ___ .. __ .. :o,613 84
Received from Director of Public Works for proceeds of sale
of Empty Sacks, Barrels, etc. 194 26
Received from City Marshal __ 1,211 52 12,019 62
SINK DEPARTMENT
Received from Cleaning Vaults. 3,857 05 3,857 05
Garbage ___ ._ __ ...__....
Mules ...... ...
Telephone _ .... ......
SEWER ACCOUNT
Time of Hands and Material. ...
7,296 65
850 00
82 00 45,870 15
1,654 51 1,654 51
SEWER EAST BROAD STREET
Time of Hands and Material.... 9,610 50 9,610 50
SIREWALKS DEPARTMENT
Laying and Repairing Sidewalks,
Forsyth Park and Parade
Ground . __ ..... _______
SINK DEPARTMENT
Salary of Superintendent......
Cleaning Vaults _________
Forage . ____________
Printiner and Stationery __ _
13,447 12 13,447 12
1,200 00
3,660 75
110 44
14 25 4.991 44
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Received from City Marshal
TAXES, 1900
Received from City Marshal.
TAXES, 1901
Received from City Marshal... _.
TAXES,' 1902
Received from City Marshal
TAXES, 1903
Received from City Marshal__.
TAXES, 1904
Received from City Marshal....
TAXES, 1905
14 87
18 86
26 61
79 04
605 22
14 87
18 86
26 61
79 04
505 22
2,339 10 2,339 10
Received from Office Collections 120,843 77
Received from City Marshal__ 13,676 13 134,419 90
SINKING FUND, 1879
Bonds of 1879, Cancelled and
Retired ................. 42,357 84 42,357 84
SINKING FUND, 1883
Bonds of 1883, Cancelled and
Retired _____.-__ 8,642 50 8,642.50
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS
Extra Compensation to Keeper
of Powder Magazine....__ 120 00
Laying Pavement West of City
Hall ....___.__._..____ 478 45
Mrs. McPike in Full Settlement,
Cost of Court, etc.._... 400 20
Colored Llhrary __...___ 180 00
Post Office Clerks -._____ 375 00
Confederate Veteran's Association _.___--..-....__. 500 00
Reward for Capture of J. B.
Kimball 60 00 2,103 65
STREETS AND LANES
Time of Hands_________ 60,867 67
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Received from Office Collections
for Real Estate, Personal and
Stock in Trade.____.. 433,838 45
Specific Taxes _________ 100,940 95
Badges .___..__......_..... 10,491 10
City Marshal __.......__._ 11,389 76
WATER WORKS
Received from Water Rents_.
Received from sale of Material,
etc. _..____
Received for use of Water for.
laying cement pavements__
556,660 25
108,856 30
418 41
29 90 109,304 61
$1,033,863 98
Insurance ......_........ 198 00
Mules ......__~--- 860 00
Rent of Telephone 38 00
Forage, Lumber, Hardware,
Tools, etc__-- 11,128 32-
TAXES, 1906
Amount Refunded by Council
WATER WORKS
Salaries and Time of Hands for
year ending Nov. 30th, 1906 22,690 10
Running Expenses of Pumps and
Engines __.. 17,205 69
Incidentals __i_____ 1,077 35
Repairs ..________. 934 08
Improvement Account ...' 414 17
Extension Account __.. 5,935 59
Cash on Hand Dec. 31st, 1906
63,081 99
5,146 69 5,146 69
48,256 98
20,755 99
$1,033,863 98

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We, the undersigned Committee on Finance, have examined the accounts of the City Treasury from January
1st, 190G, to the 31st day of December, 1906, and find same correct, with proper vouchers, and a balance in the
Treasury of $20,765.99. -
JAS. M. DIXON, Chairman,
B. A. M. SCHRODER,
JOtfN F. CANTY,
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WATER WORKS DEPARTMENT.
Superintendent's Report for the Tear 1906.
Savannah, Ga., January 1, 1907.
Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor,
City of Savannah.
SirI have the honor to submit herewith my Annual
Report for the Water Works Department for the year ending December 31, 1906.
The appropriation for 1906 was $48,000.00. The cost
N of maintainance and repairs amounted to $41,907.22 and
the amount which went for betterments was $5,994.27.
The receipts for the year 1906 are. ...........$ 109,304.61
1 Total Expenditures ........................ 47,901.49
Leaving a balance of .................. .$ 61,403.12
Pnmpage.
The total pumpage for the past year was 3,274,971,924
gallons, an average per twenty-four hours of 8,972,525 galIons as against 3,220,411,479 gallons for the year 1905,
showing an annual increase of 54,560,445 gallons for the
year 1906.
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The total pumpage for the last six months of the year
1906 was 1,700,692,449 gallons, an average per twenty-four
hours of 9,242,894 gallons. Unless this wilful waste is
stopped it will not be practicable under present conditions
to increase the pressure for the pumps are now running
nearly up to their full capacity to get a ^pressure of from
45 to 50 Ibs. (at the Pumping Station) during the day time
when water is being freely used. Estimating the population of Savannah at 75,000 we are pumping at the rate of
one hundred and twenty-three (123) gallons per capita.
This excessive pumpage is due in a great measure to the
wilful waste in private residences. If the citizens of Savannah will only give the same attention to their leaky
water fixtures as they would do if this water passed
through meters (and they had to pay for the waste) this
consumption could be reduced at least one third and there
would not be any more complaints about insufficient pressure.
Coal Consumption.
The total amount of coal consumed during the year
was 3,846.4 tons, an average per twenty-four hours of
10.53 tons.
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Gallons.
January ................................... 251,638,256
February .................................. 237,399,519
March ..................................... 276,681,092
April ...................................... 266,709,341
May ....................................... 275,212,415
June ...................................... 266,638,852
July ...................................... 283,182,477
August .................................... 290,456,342
September ................................. 279.590,928
October ................................... 289^998,648
November ................................. 270,864,801
December ................................. 286,599,253
Total ............................... .3,274,971,924
Expenses.
The following statement shows in detail the expenses
of the Department for the past year.
Salaries Account ............................ .$18,111.62
Weekly Pay Boll ............................. 4,578.48
Running Account ............................ 17,205.69
Repairs Account ............................. 934.08
Incidental Account ........................... 1,077.35
Improvement Account ........................ 58.68
Extension Account ........................... 5,935.59
i. Total Expenditures .................... .$47,901.49
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Miscellaneous
Statement showing, the miscellaneous work done by
the employees of the Department during the past year.
Water shut off for City taxes ...................... 8
Special inspections for City Treasurer ............ 50
Leaks reported by Health Inspectors............... 3,449
Water rent due and notices served ................. 333
Water shut off on account leaks.................... 58
Water turned on for City Treasurer................ 8
Special Inspections ............................... 2,393
Repairs to mains................................. 2
Gate valves packed, cleaned and oiled.............. 80
Repairs to cesspools .............................. 28
Repairs to meters ................................ 13
Fire hydrants packed, cleaned and oiled............ 658
Fire hydrants moved.............................. 7
New fire hydrants ................................ 5
New taps put in ................................. 252
New mains (feet) ................................ 5,411
New gate valves ................................. 6
New valve boxes put in .......................... 80
Extensions of Mains.
New mains were laid during the past year at thd following locations:
Location. Feet Size
On Anderson from Price St. to Waters Road. 3,600 10"
From Louisville road across Cen. of Ga. tracks
to Augusta avenue .................... 600 6"
On A Street from Augusta Ave............ 611 2"
On B Street from Augusta Ave............ 600 2"
Total .............................5,411
f
if' 110 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Deducting 600 feet of 10" pipe laid on Anderson street
to replace old 8" main from Price to East Broad streets,
leaves a grand total to date of 67 miles and 315 feet.
a There was laid in Laurel Grove Cemetery 1,220 feet of
*j 11-4" pipe.
I New Fire Hydrants.
New fire hydrants were placed at the following
locations:
One on Anderson street near Randolph.
One on Anderson street near Paulsen.
One on Anderson street near Harmon.
One on Anderson street and Waters road.
One on Augusta road near B straet.
Making a total of five new hydrants and a grand total
to date of 663.
New Gate Valves.
New gate valves were placed at the following locations:
One 10" at Anderson and East Broad streets. F /Y__ in"
*
One 10" on Anderson and Paulsen streets.
One 6" on Anderson and Ott streets.
One 6" on Anderson and East Broad streets.
One 6" on Anderson and Paulsen streets.
One 6" on Louisville road.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Ill
Making a total of six new valves and a grand total to
date of 410.
New Fire Connections.
New connections for fire protection were put in at the
following locations:
One 3" for Marcus building, West Broad and McDonough streets.
One 6" for A. S. Bacon & Sons' mill.
One 3" for Morrison building, Broughton and Montgomery streets.
Broken Mains Repaired and Connections Changed.
Eepaired 6" main at Gaston and Lincoln streets.
Eepaired 3" supply to hydrant, St. Julian and East
Broad streets.
Put in 25 taps and changed supply connections from
old 8" main to new 10" main on Anderson street, from
Price to East Broad streets.
. Pumps and Compressors.
Pump No. 410 has been in operation during the past
year 3,340 hours and Pump No. 411 5,420 hours. The compressors have been operated alternately during the past
year and have given perfect satisfaction. All the working
parts of pumps and compressors are in first-class condition.
The wooden jackets on steam chests and cylinders of pumps
should be renewed, owing to the extreme heat that these
jackets come in contact with they have become charred to
it
112 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
that extent that the life is all out of the wood, and repairs
are no longer practicable. I would recommend that metal
jackets be substituted for this work when it is done.
: Old Water Works.
An appropriation of eight thousand ($8,000.00) dollars
has been granted by Council for the installation of an Electrical Driven Turbine Pump. The contract for this lay out
will, no doubt, be awarded some time during the month of
January, and if carried out as contemplated will add very
materially to the efficiency of the plant by giving an increased supply of from three to four million gallons, and
an available supply from new and old plants of from thirteen to fourteen million gallons per 24 hours.
Recommendations.
I would recommend for the betterment of the system
that, as fast as possible, all the old 4" mains be cut out
and replaced with 6" or 8" mains, commencing first with
those cross streets that are to be paved and continuing this
work 'from year to year until all the 4" mains are cut out.
In conclusion I wish to thank your Honor, the Board
of Aldermen, and the employes of the Department for their
hearty co-operation in the successful management of the
Water Works during the past year.
Very respectfully,
I. U. KIKSET, Superintendent.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 113
REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE CITY OF
.SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
For the Tear Ending December 31st, 1906.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1907.
HON. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor.
Savannah, Ga.
SIRI have the honor to submit herewith the Annual
Report of the Department of Public Works and Improvements for the year 1906.
You will find in this report the amount of work accomplished by this department during the past year, with detailed statements of all expenditures.
The statement below gives a list of all departments
under the directions of this office, with a comparison of the
amount appropriated and the amount expended by each.
114 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT,
DEPARTMENT
Streets and Lanes. __ --
Paving Streets ... ___ - _
Sidewalks _. _-- __ --- _ --
O. E. M. Department. _
Harbor and Wharves -.-..
City Hall __ _. _____ .
Storm Sewers _ -.
Scavenger Elec. Ry____.__-.
Maint. House Drainage __.
Grading New Streets.. _- _.
City Lighting ... __ -. _ .
Opening Streets __ -.
Bilbo Canal Improvement- --
Emmet Park Railway____..-
N)ew Storm Sewer E. B.__ ...
Malnt. Asphalt Streets ___
Impt. West City HaU ___ _
Sidewalk West Side Drayton.
Appropriation
$ 60,000 00
38,000 00
25,000 00
9,000 00
6,000 00
2,000 00
3,000 00
4,500 00
3,500 00
2,000 00
40,00000
6.00000
3,100 00
9,500 00
8,000 00
9,500 00
3,00000
Expenditures
$ 65,011 00
39,039 58
66437 60
10,625 95
11,623 54
4,991 44
1,42537
1,325 52
1,656 15
7,296 65
5,867 54
1.698 72
87,934 97
165 20
9,166 70
392 78
9,891 15
1302 24
12,486 14
478 45
2,861 17
$291,676 86
Difference
S 5,011 00
1,039 58
41 43ft fifl
2,623 54
1,008 56
574 63
1,343 85
1,795 05
2,367 54
301 28
2,065 03
3,166 70
2,707 22
391 15
697 76
2,986 14
13883
The excess in paving streets is only apparent, as with
the amount paid by the property owners, railroads, and the
amount of material on hand, there will be a balance to its
credit.
Streets and Lanes Department.
The additions to the paved streets of the city during
the past year amounted to 10,560 lineal feet, or two miles.
The city now has 40.99 miles of paved streets. The increase
in the superficial area of such paved thoroughfares in 1906
was 14,917.96 square yards, making a total at present of
828,002.16 square ya-rds, divided as follows:
Division of Expenses, Department of Public Works, Year 1906.
FOR
Asphalt Paving Block _ _ _
Granite Blocks -_.. _ _
Coal and Wood Feed for Stock _
Repairs and Improvements to Public Buildings ______ ___ -
Concrete Siewer .. _ . Crushed Stone ____
Rent of Telephones . -
Shell ________ . ______
Brick ___..- _ _-.. _______ Tools and Implements __ --
Vehicles and Repairs to Same Gravel _ __ __-__
Expense of Horse and Buggy H.
City Lamps _ -
Repairs to Tools and Implements. .
Cleaning Sinks ..__
Granite Curbing .. ... _____
PIpp __. ..... ---
Oils, Paint, Putty, Etc .
Insurance _
Harness and Repairs to Same.....
Illuminating Oil -- ____-
Lubricating Oil
Lights, City Stables __ . --
Stationery, Postage, Etc..
Repairs and Maintenance of Pave
ments . -
Horses and Mules_ .
Freight, Express Charges, Trans
fer, Car Service
Sand _ - -
Plumbing Work . _...-
Artificial Stone Sidewalks -
Catch Basin, Manhole and Lamp
hole Covers ------ .
Total . _ -
Time of Hands . --
Amount
f 18,436 00
566 71
24025
12,118 23
977 26
8,148 72
1,451 98
120 00
556 53
20883 28
339 39
193 50
821 25
7.296 65
2,25026
240 00
87,984 97
8,971 77
393 00
2,188 93
8666 75
4,220 05
537 20
745000
1,517 77
261 93
i 812 25
1,266 99
240 4
86 10
899 11
823 78
5455 70
486 40
1,700 00
14.677 69
1,238 68
1 267 47
134 65
13,680 17
526 75
3 167.973 58
. 123.703 28
Totals __ -- ___ __ S 291,676 86
January
1 4550
61 51
150 50
55 00
620 00
10 75
20 00
8,122 05
11952
9200
75 08
82000
476 80
24 60
455 18
28 10
190 07
16 14
41 80
82 85
49386
53 17
49 40
14 25
60 00
$ 6,666 63
13.608 09
S20 274 72
Febr 'ary
t 11 00
1,849 19
623 33
53 61
20 00
8,12488
216 54
77 66
832 50
213 67
81 50
81 54
1 25
891 79
1 65
54 34
48 15
1,700 00
148 78
164 78
28 00
64 75
f 9.234 75
7,95446
$17,189 21
March
$ 473 43
8450
1,154 74
50 57
90 00
543 38
8
-IOA AS
26708
i<52 68
819 25
491 45
21 43
89 47
8 80
31 25
1 00
46 22
62 65
24521
106 96
26 00
4 50
861 06
9 8,235 63
8.941 50
$17.177 13
April
$ 93 28
977 26
85 17
2940
176 21
40 00
15089
264 99
88 00
126 52
419 50
712 00
4 65
865 68
506 59
4 40
600
57 56
49 62
18 68
1.14494
154 27
85 00
15 85
60 00
$ 8,585 96
8.939 94
117.525 90
May
$ 5 50
1,028 50
9992
5,000 00
81 25
122 65
1,220 00
80 75
20 00
8 152 05
236 98
384 75
681 12
5 80
44688
18 68
88 43
51 82
9 25
1,80698
265 79
4 00
518 45
53 50
|15 177 50
8,592 98
$23,770 48
June
$ 5 50
1.203 29
49 35
199 11
7 75
20 00
i09 37
ii6 57
886 00
90 09
25 50
417 59
2 25
4 05
133 25
2,743 38
50 08
23 11
7.249 60
...
$12.859 84
13,998 01
$26.857 88
July
$ 13 25
1,143 44
120 00
100 62
5,000 00
1,223 33
159 53
20 00
1B1 10
] s
137 19
107 00
42385
217 50
179 46
11 95
590 54
22 40
18 92
48 81
68 92
51 15
1,854 22
138 13
107 00
1,852 26
109 25
$19,669 77
10,324 33
August
I 40 50
1,803 96
225 25
51 27
5,336 00
64 30
623 33
1400
20 00
8.150 10
810 72
217 54
289 25
108 62
1 09
IXTft 4*
72 00
63 55
27 50
92 54
90 80
19 71
17 90
486 40
2,066 83
160 05
498 97
17 26
129 67
52 50
September
1 20 00
1,148 92
79 50
51 27
623 83
850 75
20 00
8,160 10
248 88
865 05
821 25
876 06
66 75
1,217 34
3 00
15 45
127 60
83 06
.5 23
22 10
1,547 84
216 27
267 70
10 0(1
.
$17,825 97 '$10,863 45
10.861 02J 10,829 82
$29 994 1082S 686 99 $21,693 2r
October
113,436 00
35 50
944 85
571 61
50 75
258 14
6 10
600 00
877 81
20 00
8,160 10
445 20
106 00
26400
145 86
1,229 82
918 08
85 05
278 00
5 00
85 10
12 55
3,907 8fc
1.486 4C
170 OC
17 73
35 14
66 5(
Nove'ber '.
I 16 50
2,458 62
575 62
5027
5,171 50
4380
620 00
54 60
20 00
3,160 10
442 68
249 50
266 50
1,049 90
8 20
590 86
15 60
... . .^
91 15
26 72
4 00
1 2,369 06
139 4T
1 8540
I 11 80
t' 1.000 00
) 15 OC
. $29,119 25518,479 0,v
, 10.036 36| 9,735 3(
Dece ' her
\ 12 50
2,841 34
685 10
103 50
600 00
13 00
20 00
8,160 10
662 67
801 14
196 25
3284
256 15
25
60 20
94 43
25 23
601 76
16 65
1,968 64
1 110 00
! Sll,2i55 75
i 9,881 41
$39.155 61 $28.214 44 $21.137 US
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 115
Broughton _ _ __.
Bryan _ _ __
Bull _____ -
Congress _ _ __
Drayton _____
Harris
Liberty __ ___
Oglethorpe Avenue
President _
St. Julian _ ___
York __ _
A Vnit*/*rti*Ti
Bay _ _ _ _
Rear City Hall-- _.
Barnard _ _.
Congress Lane
Gwinnett __ . ___.
Habersham ___ _.
Park Avenue _
President _ _ _ _.
Wheaton __ _.
Jefferson _ _
Thirty-Eighth, east
Montgomery _ _.
Forty-Second, west
West Broad _
Jones, west _ _ _.
Berrien _ _ _.
Tattnall
Stewart _
Price - _.
Henry _ _ _.
Perry Lane _ _ _.
Broughton Lane _.
East Broad __
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Square Yards
__17,950
619
__32,831
_ 6,539
_22,522
. 1.675
__30,430
25,933
. 780
-_ 1,088
A47 110 814
_ _36,024.40
_ 9,381.9
. _ 227.7
__ 3,005
_ 2,086
31,695.4
19,956.48
_ 14,208
.__ 3,961
__ 7,256
_ 17,228
_ 3,875
__ 405
__ 1,165.4
.34,690.11
.__ 5,682.6
. _ 2,351.1
.__ 1,321.6
.__ 4,663.9
. .16,585.2
. -12,917.16
. _ 749.3
. - 1,917.3
.__10,408.3
116 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Macon _ _ ____ V-it
Thirty-Sixth _ _
Roberts _ _ _ _
Whitaker _
Thirty-First _
Drayton _ _ _ _
State
Hall _____
Wayne _ _ _ _ _
Harmon _ _ _
Gaston _ _ _ _
Lincoln _ _ _ _
Bay Lane, east Line 'In
Emmett Park .._ - _
Louisville Road _ _
Bay St. Extension
President _ _ . _
Bay _ _ .___ _ _
Factors Walk _
Lanes _____
Pine
New __ _ _
River __ _
Sts. Slips north Bay
Randolph __ _ __ _
Reynolds _ _ _
Barnard _ _ _ _
East Broad _ _ _
West Broad _ __ _
W. Boundary at dump
Whitaker _ _
Orange _ _ ___ ____
Williams
Williamson _ ___ _
Zubly _____ ,
Square
rifled Brick _ _ 211
" . __ - - 6,456
" _ 689.7
_ _. 18,295.7
_ __ .11,934.6
_ _ 1,033.2
_ __ _ 2,862.35
___ 4,960.6
_ _ 595.7
5,534
1,550.5
" _ 689.6
____ _ 122.26
Yards
. __ _ 2,453.4 299,150.46
Chert _ _ _ 4,377
" _ _ 9,255
i oon
Cobble __ 25,660.1
8,800
" __11,786.1
" - - _ 1,800
__ __ 1,378
__ ._ 17,214.9
" _____ 8/772.3
" ___ 8,500
" - ___ 4,200
__ _ 4,420
__ __ _15,800
" -24,374.9
" _ - 1,244
" - _ 6,724.3
" ___ __ 660
" __ _ 4,500
" _ _ 2,252
" , ____ 2,645 .
14,912
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 117
Square Yards
Margaret _______ Cobble _____ 7,000
Sycamore . ______ " _____ 711
Bay -________Granite Blocks___ 1,707
Barnard _______ "
Bryan ________ " _
East Broad _____ "
Farm _________ " _
Jefferson _______ " _
Indian ________ "
Eailroad ______ " _
Wadley _______ " _
Wheaton ______ " _
Water ________ " _
Eiver _________ " _
.Coffee AUey _____ " _
Bolton ________ Shell _
Barnard _______ "
Jones _ "
HaU _________ " _
Henry _________ " _
Ogeeehee Road ___ "
Gwinnett ______ Gravel
Liberty Lane _____ " ___
Bull _.______ " _
New _-_____ " _
Harris __________ "
St. Julian ______ " _
158,462.6
. 1,049
. 7,362
. 9,190
.10,103.2
21,913
. 7,572
. 6,097
. 4,309
. 5,000
. 2,297
. 4,618.1
. 634.8 81,852.1
.11,700
. 6,500
. 9,972.8
. 7,339.4
21,000
._16,000 72,512.2
._ 5,666
._ 332
:_32,550
._ 4,500
._ 1,937
._ 5,244.9 50,299.9
Gaston _______Asphalt Block___ 9,998.9
Recapitulation.
Sheet Asphalt ____________________140,814
Block ____________-_____________ 9,998.9
Vitrified Brick _________-_________299,150.46
US MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Square Yards
Chert __________________________ 14,912
Cobble __________________________158,462.6
Granite Blocks _____________________ 81,852.1
Shell _______________________. __ 72,512.2
Gravel ____..____________________ 50,299.9
Total ________________________828,002.16
Expenditures in the Streets and Lanes Department During
Year 1906:
Cleaning Asphalt Streets ______________$ 6,650 75
Cleaning Streets other than Asphalt Streets___ 10,390 64
Cleaning Catch Basins ____________'___ 4,694 76
Sweeping Crossings ________________ 1,884 25
Grading and FiUing _________________ 7,188 18
trading and Opening New Streets_________ 620 67
Laying and Repairing Crossings_______ 1,050 50
Maintenance Shell Streets _____________ 1,509 29
Repairing and Cleaning Storm Sewers______ 743 42
Repairing Streets other than Asphalt Streets._ 5,542 12
Paving Streets _____________________ 1,969 37
Inspecting Sewers _____ 544 50
Catting and Hauling Weeds______________ 1,728 76
Help City Engineer and City Lot__________ 1,979 00
Oil Catch Basins ___________________ 390 00
Hauling Cinders ____________-_ 427 45
Sprinkling and Sweeping 923 52
Lay:jag Sidewalks, Curbing and Repairs 2,988 36
Building Catch Basins, Retaining Wall & Bridges 518 24
Work and Material, Salaries other than above_ 13,497 32
Total _________________________$65,011 00
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 119
Cleaning Paved Streets.
The cost of cleaning paved streets during 1906:
Cost per
Square Yard* Square Yard
Asphalt _________140,814 $ 6,650 75 .0472
Cobble and Granite__240,314.7 3,269 77 .0136
Shell, Gravel, Chert _137,724.1 564 69 .0041
Vit. Brick, Asp. Block-309,149.36 6,780 82 .0212
$17,266 03
Bepairs to Paved Streets.
The cost of repairs to paved streets during 1906:
Material Square Yardt Cost A*. Cost Sq. Yd
Asphalt _________140,814 $12,486 14 .088
Cobble __________158,462.6 2,218 86 .014
Granite Block _____ 81,582.1 473 37 .0058
Vitrified Brick ____299,150.46 1,895 94 .0063
Shell __________ 72,512.2 1,509 29 .02
Gravel Chert ______ 65,211.9 943 95 .014
$19,527 55
The cost of repairs to asphalt streets during the year
was almost 9 cents per square yard. Some of the streets are
badly in need of resurfacing.
' The cost of repairs to asphalt streets will continue to
increase if something is not done by the city. Most of the
repairs to other streets were caused by excavations by plumbers, gas company, railroads, and telephone companies.
120 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Catch Basins.
The total number of Catch Basins cleaned during the
year 1906 was 7,361 Catch Basins, at a cost of $4,694.76.
Also eleven fountains cleaned 702 times during the year.
There were fourteen new catch basins put in during the
year, making a total of 1,194 catch basins now in use in
the city.
Sidewalks Department.
There were 1.261 sidewalk repairs made during the
yflar, including crossings and portions of paved streets, at
a cost of $5,258.70. The amount of granite curbing laid was
27,051.76 feet, or five and one-half miles. There were laid
during the year under the supervision of this office 103,-
993.2 square feet at a cost of $10,000.00, artificial stone
sidewalk.
The total expenditures for sidewalks during the year
was $10,625.95, and amount bills rendered to be credited to
this account amoiint to $10,644.42.
Storm Sewers.
There were forty-one breaks during the year at a cost
of $743.42: also fifty connections made to the storm water
sewers during the year. The total amount expended in this
department during 1906 was $1,656.15.
Up to 1897 there were 17.88 miles of storm sewers.
Since that time there have been laid 6.34 miles, making a
total of 24.22 miles.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT, 121
Below you will find a tabulated statement showing the
new additions to the storm water sewer for 1906.
Henry Street Lane, Paulsen to Ott_____ 8 834
Price Street, Gwinnett to Hall________12 325
Price Street, Gaston to Lane________12 175
York and Montgomery Streets10 80
Springfield Plantation ____________15 112
Dry Culture East Side____________10 24
Bilbo Canal, Gwinnett to Bolton Streets__10 & 7 346
East Broad St., River to Broughton (R. C-)_ 5 feet 1,035
Total Feet_____________________2,931
Repairs to Asphalt Streets.
The maintenance contract of the city with the Southern
Asphalt Company now embraces every asphalt street in the
city, amounting to 140.814 square yards.
During the present year the asphalt force was in the
city twice. The asphalt streets of the city have been almost continually out of repair.
_ The asphalt pavement contract having expired this
I summer, and it being necessary that something in the way
of repairs to the' asphalt streets be done at once, a special
agreement was made with the Asphalt Company so the
streets could receive attention. In this connection I would
again call your attention to the necessity of making some
definite arrangement to have these streets kept in condition.
Paving Streets.
There were 23,504.06 square yards of Vitrified brick
pavement laid during the year, 9,998.9 square yards asphalt
122 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
blocks, 634.8 granite blocks. The total amount expended
was $66,436.60.
Below you will find a detailed statement showing the
streets paved, with the amount charged against the city,
property owners and railroads.
Streets Paved 1006.
STREETS
Price .. _
Whitaker . _
Bay _ ' .__...
MATERIAL
Vitrified Brick
Vitrified Brick
Vitrified Brick
Asnhalt. Rlnp.k.
Gaston ._ _ Vitrified Brick
Lincoln _ _Jvitrifled Brick
Bay Lane east
of Lincoln..
Emmet Park .
fnfppft Allpv
Vitrified Brick
Vitrified Brick
Granite Block.
Totals..
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S 6,074 20
9,825 58
14,501 77
17,586 65
2,602 78
1,126 89
203 70
2,649 67
952 20
$55,022 89

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5 2.655 97
4,454 74
8,667 95
9,825 83
1,148 68
480 48
2,649 67
529,888 27
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| 3,481 23
1,846 56
2,137 46
7,487 68
1,454 10
645 91
208 70
952 20
$18,145 79
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$8.024 28
8,696 36
778 19
87,493 88
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3,442.7
5,863.7
9,381 9
9,998.9
1,550.5
689.6
122.26
2,458.4
634.8
84.187.76
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190.1838
1.59.0390
1.55 6167
1.75.8858
1.07.8639
1.63.8396
1.66.6
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1.76 4370
1.10.42688
2.84.0106,
27ft.
27ft.
57 ft.
2.09.9841 30 !t.
1.54 9250 23 ft.
1.79.8204 27 ft
1.69.186
1.20.604
2.12.544
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20ft.
16ft.
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1,064.9
1,902.1
1.585.18
2,669
560
2088
602
1,097.95
224
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Finished paving with Cobble left off from last year, the following streets:
Zubly Street......................
William Street..... .... ....---
Margaret Street.......... --------- , West Boundary Street, at damp.....J
In rear of City Hall, Vitrified Brick, 191.75.
(Cobble taken from Whitaker Street.)
1 (
1 No cost to property owners, -j
At a cost to the city.
a(W. (1905 .. .... $2,862.24
tf"OD 11906 ........ 1,777.62
418986
124 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Scavenger Department.
Below you will find a tabulated statement of the work
done in the Scavenger Department during the year 1906.
1906
MONTHS
February
March
April ____
May ......__....
July ______
September f\ n t-f\ VIA**
December __ __-
Total ...__.
*3
&i
III
5>5
in
2,111
1,928
2,173
2,043
2,223
2,132
2,232
2,336
1957
2,086
1950
1,963
25,134
Loads Hauled by Street Lans and
Carte Dump to
1.030
1,106
1,388
1,201
1224
1,038
1,002
1.116
989
1,057
1,130
975
13,256
_?| s!
i*
_? a!
=0,3
160
139
162
148
162
150
152
162
144
162
152
150
CD f*
fej gas*
5j?
gag*_! !te
159
130
160
154
163
157
161
166
158
170
159
156
1,843 1,893
Dead Stock Removed
s
a
S
8
-:
5
3
3
3
7
6
10
13l
O9
1
33
25
26
16
9
19
13
16
16
25
18
7
22
68212
tj
ll
18
9
16
11
10
5
10
S
9
6
6
96
s
:& |l
n
4
1
1
8
3
!
3
2
5
2
48
1
41
38
61
60
98
110
94
48
58
75
63
48
794
Dry Culture Department.
The city's health necessitates this department doing
thorough work and is a very important one in the city government, as, although not brought prominently before the
public, the health of the city depends largely upon it.
The cost of keeping the ditches clear of weeds, etc., and
the salary of the clerk to the Director of Public Works,
amounts to $11,623.54.
Below you will find a tabulated statement of the work
of this department.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 125
1906
MONTHS
January _.._--
March ... -.
April __ .__. ___ .
May .. _________
July ... _____ ____
August
September _ __
November _ _ ___
T")prptYI IK**!*
Total _______
No. Feet
Ditches
Cleaned
78,990
101.410
144.620
109.020
102,250
106.650
109,235
100,800
56,255
118,650
88.110
90.570
1,264,560
No. Feet
Canals
Cleaned
8.950
4,800
6.450
6,050
27,130
2,950
6,450
5,550
8.600
6,900
2.400
26,685
102,915
No. Feet
Weeds Cut
8,100
66.600
156,800
193,580
185,712
210.030
197,601
104,040
1.117,463
No. Days
Worked
438
857
444
444*
540
495
455}
530
454J
4871
457
391
5,494
0. E. M. Department.
Below you will find a tabulated statement, showing the
work done in this department during the present year 1906,
amounting to $3,666.75.
MONTHS
l?A}mi D W
March ... . ..
April __ . _ ..__..
May ...-.-.. ...
July ... _ ____
Aiifnift^
September ._ __
October _ _ _ -
November . .....
Total..... _...
Vaults
Cleaned
42
65
05
08
82
04
69
106
48
88
95
88
4A
O
I 1 <
$ 105 00
102 50
102 50
157 50
80 00
385 00
172 50
205 00
120 00
95 00
287 50
95 00
745| 1,487 50
"S
f
7
4
8
6
6
Amount
S14 00
8 00
0 00
12 00
12 00
2
- - - "
8
0
4 00
6 00
81 62 00
*
,
**%
fl$
IX W. 1
Bbl. 1
1). W. P. 1
D. W. C. 1
0. I). W. 2
Bbl. 1
P. D. W. 1
Bbl, 1
C. Bbl. 1
10
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$ 3 50
50
2 00
2 50
5 00
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2 00
50
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916 00
3} 3D
II t*
SF
4
5
C. &P.1
(!, 20
P. BO
C 18
0. 1
C. 85
C. 56
C 6
C, 41
298
Amount
$ 6 00
11 25
4 25
45 00
120 00
40 50
2 25
191 25
126 00
18 50
92 25
tf8
III o<*
42
80
81
50
48
5
1
4
1
9
2
2
$ 661 25 285
*j
a
9
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$ 189 00
103 00
189 00
205 50
198 50
23 50
4 50
18 00
4 50
40 50
9 00
9 00
v~t 1
$ 820 00
883 50
819 25
427 00
884 75
886 00
217 50
289 25
821 25
204 00
266 50
190 25
$ 1,057 50| 8,686 25
Less overcharge.. -.$ 1750
REPORT. ANNUAL, MAYOR'S
8,666 75
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 12?
Harbor and Wharves.
Only such minor repairs as have been necessary to keep
the wharves in good condition have been done this year.
These, with the expenses of the Harbor Master's office,
necessitated the expenditure of $1,425.37.
City Lighting.
There are at present 530 arc lights in the city, costing
for the year 1906 $37,934.97.
These lamps are of old, antiquated pattern, open arc
lamps, the first ever used in the United States. They are
continually going out and causing trouble and annoyance
to this department; besides, with the present open arc lamps
it is impossible for the Electric Company to give us a continuous candle power of 600 candles, called for by our
contract.
The Savannah Electric Company has promised to give
us or replace these old lamps with modern enclosed arc
lamps, but as yet it has replaced none of them.
Maintenance of House Drainage.
"We are glad to report that there were only a few minor
breaks to the house drainage system this year.
The cost of maintaining the department this year
amounted to $5,867.54.
123 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Forsyth Park Extension Pavement.
The artificial stone pavement on west side of Drayton
Street from Gaston Street to Park Avenue, and from Drayton Street to the Monument in the Park Extension, as provided for by resolution of Council, has been completed and
accepted. The amount expended for this purpose was
$2,861.17.
There is no doubt but that the whole public appreciates
this improvement more than any made by the administration in some time.
Very respectfully,
GEO. M. GADSDEN,
Director of Public Works,
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 129
CITY ENGINEER'S REPORT.
SAVANNAH, G\., Dec. 31st, 1906.
HON. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor.
City of Savannah.
SIRI have the honor to submit the following report
of the operations of the City Engineer's Department for the
year ending December 31st, 1906.
Survey of Lots With Plats, for Private Parties.
LOT NO.
22 __ . _ ------
West 1-3, 2 _____
G8 __ -- - -
"Woc'r 1 *>
10 ____ - _ -- _
21 __ - ------- -_
S. W. % 14 ------
South 2-3, 4 _
North %, 2-. - __
A, B and C _
South, %, West 5-6, 20-
Q
21, 22, 23, 24 and parts
27 and 28 __ __-
SUBDIVISION
Frederick Ty thing. _
Hull Sub, 30-34-. _ --
Hull Sub". 13, 14 and 15.
Sub. 19 ___ -----
3rd Tything. _ -
Sub. Garden Lot 20 S _
WARD
Gaston
Roberts
Springfield
JL/t-M Uj
Wylly
Chatham
Greene
Swoll
Law
Wylly
Law
S. % 80 and S. % 31 Bartow
10 ___'Hulls Sub. 35-39I Wylly
23
23 and 24...
North % 46.
90 -_
Dasher
Jasper
Mid. O'glethorpe
Barry
35 and 36..___ ________(Reppard
130 MAYOR'S ANNUAL. REPORT.
Survey of Lots with Plats, for Private PartiesContinued.
LOT NO.
15, 44 and 45. _____
East % 58 ______ ..
East part 26. _____
3 and 6 _ __
East 2-3 4. ______
East part 11 ___ ...
2 ___ _______ .
West part 2 and 3 .....
East 10 ft 58. ___ ..
35 _________ .
48 __-.--- ___ . ....
N. W. part 29 .... _
Middle part 77 ____..
108 and 111 ___ . _.
65 ----- ___ _____
Lots 2, 3, 4, 11, and 12_
60 .. _ ...
North part 7 ___.__.__
29 -_ ___ ... ____
42 ...... ____ . .....
36 . __ _..-- ________
B ______ . _.
3 .. . _ ...-.
4
31, 33, 35, 37. __ _____
North part 3-.. __ .__
W J/_ 40 & 41, S pt W % 9Q
East part 10 ___ . -
North part 12- __ ....
1 -_...- ...
66 _ -------- __ . ...
E. 2-3 39 & W. 2-3 40
5 _ . ___ - _____.
North part 26. ________
N pt 4 & W pt 37-39 _
East pt 27 _ _____
17 ... ___ - ____ ...
59 .. _.__..._.._. ____
15 and E % 16 ___ ...
45 ---.-__- _____ -__
\Vsst Durt TT
South West pt 25
16 and 23 ________
East 3-4 39 ..__....__._
Part 9 __ . ___ _
SUBDIVISION
Sub. 42 and 43 ___ __
Sub. 42 and 44 ____
Kings Sub.. _. _
Sec. B ______ __
T^ynac 7, Block C _ -
Tract 7 Millen __ -...
Sec. B ..........
Sec. 5 ____- _ ...
Block 1 _______ ..
Block 1 Sub. Teynac 4.
Sec. 9 _ - ____
WARD
Schwarz
T -iiv
Springfield
Borrien
Springfield
Hull
Thomas
Lee
Norwood
Stiles
Estill
Stephens
S. Oglethorpe
White
Elbert
South ville
Derby
Southville
S. Ogtethorpe
Mid. Oglethorpe
Davis
Cuthbert
Stephens
Reppard
Glatigny
White
Swoll
Flannery
N. Oglethorpe
Dale
Padelford
Padelford
Lovell
S. Oglethorpe
Columbia
Cuthbert
Mid. Oglethorpe
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 131
Survey of Lots with Plats, for Private PartiesContinued
LOT NO. SUBDIVISION WARD
A ..____-_--.-- --------_._.__ Johnston
19 .- -------I-------__-__-__-. Duncan
3 and 4_| --_______ Lafayette
118 _-__..;| -----.. __________ Haywood
Bast % 53.-----i-------__-__...-. Lovell
90 and 91_--__ Kaufman ..-______ Bstill
34 --___.__ __.___. Blliott
137 ____1_______ Gartland
269 .-_-- - i Block 17 ________ Harmon
C __.. _______ S. Oglethorpe
61 ______ Forsyth
South part East % 31-. __..___________ Davis
7 ________ Block 7 __._____ Griffin
7 __.... . Sub. Tract 19_____ Law
East % 57 and 58___1_____ ________ Dale
50 and 60_.__.___ I SVsc. 8 ._--._______ Southville
D and C-______- | Sub. 5 _________ Roberts
West part 23..-!--- .__.___. Swoll
72 __.__.__._..--.!__--..----__-._._. White
South % 22. | _ -----______. Currietown
3 . ____ ___ ___ i Wharf Lot _____ _ N. Oglethorpe
64 to 69 and 120, 121__!__.---__.__.___, Jones
West part 28.-_----_ _---------____._ Jackron
E% J _________. McNish Tract _..... Colding
68 ___..___---_-__jBlock H ...___..- Colding
Part 19 ______-_ I_____-.._..___-.._ N. O'glethorpe
30 _--..__.__--___i._---------______ Gaston
69, 120, 121_______ __..-__._.___-.__ Jones
31 to 36, 44, 45 & tract. __..__________ Lamar 11 ________.- __._____ Estm
14 ________----- ._______.... Lester
4 and East part 3_... Millen Lots ._____ Grayson
D _______.____ _______ S. Oglethorpe
149 _____-_.__-- Sub. Lot 10, Millen__ Schwarz
South part 3___ - _ Wharf Lots . __ ___ Truste,. Garden
Part 20 _...__ -._______ Reppard
Part 9 _--.---_ ______ N. Oglethorpe
18 .__._. _______ Bacon
3, 4 and 5....._____ ________-___..__ Hull
1 __-........._... ! Sub. 44 --_-______.__ Springfield
132 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Maps and Plata of Lots.
LOT
15 and 16
26 and 27 (2).
3 and 4.. _-..
26 and 29 __
N. pc 7 & mid.
pt 8 _____
17 to 32 ______
37-39 & 64-66 .
1 to 8 ________
47, 48, 49 ___
37 __._____
51 __ ____ -
A to K
and A to K__-
34 ___ --_-
4 ___ . _--
SECTION
King Sub _____
Sec. 9 ----._-
Kingsville Sec. 17 _ __
Milieu Lot _
WARD
Fleming _____
Lester ------
3. Oglethorpe.
Currietown ..
Bsrrlen ___
Waring . _____
Barry _.____.
Teynac ..-
Forsytn __ _.
Kelly ____
Harmon and
Grayson.-.
PtJRPOSE
Opening Streets
Sale of Lots
Tax Assessors
Tax Assessors
Park Site
Park Site
Opening Streets
Open. Burroughs St.
Pa rlr Qita
Show Improvements
Opening Streets
Survey of Lots.
LOT SECTION- WATID PURPOSE
33
94
93
15 and 16.
47, 48, 49_
15 to 33
iBrady Sub_-
Kings Sub_.
Kingsville ...
Fair Ground
Tract...___
McNish Tract.
Miller Lot_.
Bstill _______
Owens ___.
Owens __.
Fleming ____
Norwood _.
Opening 35th St.
Sale of Lots
Sale of Lots
Opening Barnard
Openings Streets
Opening Streets
Colding ..__ Open. W. Broad St.
Harmon and
Grayson... Opening Streets
Maps and Plats Miscellaneous.
Plan of Bay street and Strand from Drayton to Barnard, for paving and parks.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 183
Map of Wharf at foot of Drayton street.
Plan of Bilbo Canal from Bolton to Gwinnett, for covering same.
Map of Duffy street and lane, Henry street and lane
through the Waldburg property. Weed Ward.
Plan of Bay and Bull streets in the vicinity of City
Hall for Superior Court, McBride case.
Completing map of the City, showing different kinds
of pavement.
Plan of site for Y. M. C. A. building on Bull and
Charlton streets.
Plan of sewer for Bilbo Canal between Gwinnett and
Bolton streets.
Map showing proposed connection of fire alarm system
with Bell and Georgia Telephone conduits.
Plan of 2, 3, north part of 4, 11 and 12, and unnamed
part of Sec. B, South Oglethorpe Ward.
Plan of covering for Bilbo Canal from Bolton street
to Gwinnett street.
Plan showing encroachments on River street, foot of
Reynolds.
Map of the Fair Ground Tract.
Plan of the City showing water mains, fire hydrants
and valves.
Map showing streets to be opened through the Lawton Tract in Lawton Ward.
Eight Maps showing paved streets in the City.
Plan showing Sub. of the meadows in Ballantyne Ward.
134 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Plan of lots for park in blocks 1, 13, 14 and 22 on East
Broad street and 39th street.
Map of the Southern Extension of City showing proposed streets and parks.
Plan of the Pair Ground Tract showing proposed subdivisions into lots.
Map of City showing location of storm water sewers.
Survey of Streets.
STREET FROM To PURPOSE
Duffy ____ A. C. L. Ry_'Atlantic Opening Streets
York _____ Bull _____ Whltaker __ i Paving
Bay Lane __ Bull .____ Drayton ..--.I Paving
East Broad Bjoughton Bay _| Water Mains, Gas
! ! Mains, etc.
Maps and Plats of Streets.
STREET
Whitaker __
Price ___ ...
Stiles Ave ____
East Broad ..
Abereora ____
FROM
Wsst Broad __
Rankin ......
Broughton ...
Oglethorpe Av
To
Thunderbolt .
Park Ave __ -
Gwinnett *D>*i/*A
Miller ____
Bay .
liberty ___
PURPOSE
Opsnlng Streets
Paving
Paving
Opening County Rd.
Water & Gas Mains
Tracks
.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 185
Tracings of Streets.
STREET
Lathrop Av. 2
Henry -___ __.
Stiles Ave _ _ West Broad .-
Whitaker __
Price --_---__
FROM
Louisville Rd.
Price ..-
Waters Ave. _
Louisville Rd_
Zubly __ _ .
Liberty ___
Gaston .__
Gwinnett ...
To
Bay ....
35th __ __ _. West Broad ._
Thunderb't Rd
Gwinnistt __
Indian . ______
Pnrlr A v
PURPOSE
Paving
Old Lines
'Da xrfti v
Paving
Location Tracks
Paving
flu.1 !* nPFftplro.
"Psi v.n ff
Paving
Street Lines Given During the Year.
LOT NO.
B and C _________
14, 15, 216 __ _
Tract ... .
37 to 43 and 44.- __
30 to 33 _ __.____..__
37 and 38-_ _. ___ .__
12 ___________________
9 . __ _____
10 _ ____ . _ ____.
1 _____ ______
255 and 262--.-. _
6 and 7- __ __ _ .
37 to 39 and 64 to 66 _
East % 11 _____ -- _
57 to 60.. ________ __
81, 82, 83 _________
65 and 66 ______
15 ____.. ___ . ____ .
West& 63 __-_
34
4 _____ . _____ .._
42 and 43 ._____
31 and 32. _ .
35 _ ___ __ .
10 _____ _ _ .__
114 ________ -
SUBDIVISION
Sub. 15 _. _ ___
3rd Tything _____ ..
Lillibridge Tract ......
Block 1 ________
Sec. 4 __________
Sub. 50 ... .. _ . __ .
Sub. 11 and 12.. __ _ -
WARD
Marshall
Falligant
Barry
Wylly
Barry
White
Reynolds
Estill
Norwood
Ballantyne
Ballantyne
Barry
Schley
Thomas
T _3O
Hull
Lovell
Elliott
Cuthbert
Springfield
Springfield
Lee
Columbia
Telfatr
136 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Street Lines Given During the YearContinued.
LOT NO.
54 _____________
54
67 and 68 ________
5, 6 and 7.--_ ..
N. W. % 21 ..
W %, 21 and E % 22 _
28 . . . - . .
16 and 23 _ 1 _____ .
A and B _______ ..
24 ._ ... .__.__. ..
10 _ _ .... ____
N. __ . _________
Co and 66 _____ ..
9
18 _ - ---._ _
4 __ _______ _
4 .. ____ _
1
5 ..
3 _ _____ ____
1 _ __ . __ .......
E. pt 37 and W. pt 38
IS _ ____ ___ _ .
1 and 2 _________
6 .. _ . _
6 to 12 .. ..
W % 40 and 41, S part
W % 39. _ . __ _
25 and 26 _. _______
7, 8, 11
20, 21 and 22.. ...
1, 2, 3, C and 7 _____
E. pt 39 and W. pt 40
A
E % 32, 34 and W % 36
15 .. __. __
East % 27 _ - ______
47, 48 and 49_ _ .. _.
West % 7 _____ . _
7 and 8_ -_ ._-..
17 ____________ .
13 __ . ___ .. ._ _
West 4 of 21 and 22_ .
1 ... _ _._.
3 ._ _____
9 ___ . _______
SUBDIVISION
Sec. 6 _ _ -____-__
Canal Lots East ._ ..
Sub. 11 and 12 _ . .___
Sub. 71 ___ ___ -
Hull Sub. 79, 82, 83 & 85
Hull Sub. 72, 76, 77
Sub. 11 and 12 ___ .__
Sub. 18 ._.__.
Sec. 6 _____ - __-
Sec. 1 King Sub __ ...
Sub. 11 and 12 _ _
Dillon Tract .. .____
WARD
Barry
Telfalr
Gas'ton
Norwood
Berrien
Flannery
Estlll
S. Oglethorpe
Dale
Law
Padelford
Waring
Barry
Springfield
Choctaw
Estill
Liberty
Bacon
Choctaw
Berrien
Forsyth
Springfield
Springfield
Mid. Oglethorpe
Estill
Springfield
Springfield
Reppard
Waring
Grifflr.
Bferrien
Da vis
Flannery
Reppard
Springfield
Currletown
Reppard
Mid. Oglethorpe
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 137
Street Lines Given During the YearContinued.
LOT NO.
3 and 4 _________
41 ____ . _ .__...
18 ____ ....
1 and 2 _________
9
N % 57... .
236 and 237 _______
R
East 3-4 19 ____ -
3 _. .. _
43 ____ _ ____ .
64, 65 and 66 ____
54 _ ___
2
S. pt 17 and 18, N. pt
40 and 41 _____
Part 41 and 42--- ______
East % 6 _____ - ____
2
62 and 48 _______ -
39 __
W% 85, 86 and 87..
72 ____ . _______
South part 19 ________
South % 45 __
76 and 80 ________
159 ______ -. _____
5
East part 57, 58, 59 ____
104 to 110 __ -- _
30 _ . _____ _
9 ____ -----
6 _____ ____ _
Tract .__
7 and 8 ____ _
5 . _
15 and 16
28 ____________ .
73 ----- ___ __-_.__
112 arid 113 .____
Goodwin Tract _.
East% 38 - _ _
17 ___ -._
South % 22 ___ . __
14 ____ . ___________
East% 67 . ___.____
58 --. ___ ----- __
SUBDIVISION
Block 1 __..._ ____
Tfl/*l-"V- T^vt -ilritr
Sec. 9 .. __ . ________
Sub. 18 _______ ___
WARD
Lafayette
Reppard
\Vj__. l_*v
Derby
Lloyd
Springfield
Waring
Duncan
N. Oglethorpe
Barry
S. O'glethorpe
Reppard
Washington
Minis
Solomons
Solomons
Estill
Dasher
Lovell
Lester
Lee
Hull
Screven
Dale
Heywood
Johnson
Meldrim
Choctaw
Stephens
Roberts
Law
Lee
Telfalr
Colding
Elliott
Springfield
Flannery
Weed
138 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Street Lines Given During the YearContinued.
LOT NO.
18 and W,est % 19
S
i/ fi
Part 2 _____ ___ --
F - _--_ --
1 . --_--_---
42. 43 and 44... ___ --
135 10 139. . . _ -----
122 and 123 _____
1, 2 and 3 ___ - ___
234 ._ ____ _..- -
16 __. __-__-__. _--
2, 3 and 4 _ ____ --
Q . ..._._-
29 and 30.- _ -
8 . --._ _ . ____ -
20 and South pt 33-___-
38 to 41 _________
47 _________ _ _
284 ___ ............
25 _______ _____ --
122 and 123 ____ - _
SUBDIVISION
Sub. 55 to 60. ___ . -
Kline Sub. ______ ..
WARD
Thomas
Walton
Thomas
Walton
Haywood
Basher
Padelford
Davis
Waring
Reppard
Meldrim
Meldrim
Kelley
Elliott
Haywood
Estimates of Streets.
STREET FROM To MATERIAL
Fortisth _..East Broad-: Waters Ave._.
Forty-fifth _'Middle Ground A. C. L. R. R..
Coffee Alley' Indian River .
Price ___- Gaston ._-.Gwinnett ....
Gwinnett --__> Price Hannon _...
Bay ___.... Drayton _-- Barnard __.
Whitaker __ Gaston ___ Park Ave. ...
York _____Bull _____.Whitaker _.
Gaston .--.__ Price - West Broad ..
Bay Lane - Lincoln Habersham _.
Bay Lane ---- Bull -_.-- Drayton ._.
Liberty Lane. Bull _____ Whitaker _.
Henry ____ Waters Ave._ City Limits _.
Lincoln _ Bay _ Bryan ___.
Rivr ----- Farm - Reynolds ....
Open Streets.
Open Streats.
Granite Block.
Brick.
Cement.
Brick.
Brick.
; Brick.
Asphalt Blk. & Brk.
Brick.
Brick.
Brick.
Gravel.
' Brick.
Granite Block.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 139
EstimatesMiscellaneous.
1. Estimate of square yards of sidewalk in grass plot
west of City Hall.
2. Estimate of square yards of sidewalk in Emmc.t
Park.
3. Estimate of paving Gorrie Ice Co.'s yard.
4. Estimate for paving walks in Forsyth Park.
5. Estimate of sidewalk in park west of City Hall.
6. Estimate of area of lanes through Ballantyne and
Hull Wards.
7. Estimate of square feet needed for opening streets
through the Granger Tract.
8. Estimate of cement walks laid in Emmet Park.
9. Estimate of roadway of vitrified brick Emmet Park.
10. Final' estimate of cement walk east side Forsyth
Park and Park Extension.
11. Estimate of paving in rear City Hall.
12. Estimate of cost for covering Bilbo Canal from
Gwinnett to Bolton street.
13. Estimate of cost of sewer on East Broad street
from the Savannah river to Broughton street.
140 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Grades and Lines.
STREET
Bay __ -
West Broad __
Thirty-Seventh
Price --
Price ___ - Whitafe?r
Gaston _ -- -
West Broad __
Thirty-Sixth .
Thirty Fifth .
Gwinnett . .__
Thirty-Seventh
William -----
Tlavi<i
Henry -------
TflTrlni"
Thirty-Eigth .
Bay __ _
Gaston ------
Whitaker _ .
Abercorn _ ___
Thirty-Eighth .
Henry Lane ..
Thirty-Kiixeth.
West Broad ...
Taylor _ .
Thirty-Fifth .
Montgomery -
East Broad __
Thirty-Fifth,.-
Duffy ___ -
FROM
Drayion -
Fortieth ___
A. C. L. Inters
Margaret _
Gaston ______
Gaston _ __..
Gaston _____
Tattnall -.
Indian ___ -
Price
Habsrsham . _
Subway ------
West Broad __
Farm _
Price ________
Waters Ave -.
Habersham __
30 ft. south of
West of Burro
Barnard _ ____
Abercorn -
Hall -. _
Gaston
Bay _
Paulsen .. ___
Bay - -
Dray ton _____
West Broad __
Broughton ___
River -
Bull .- ___ -
Dixon Park ..
To
Shorty-Second -
ection
William __ -
Gwinnett ___
Park Av.e. ---
West Broad _.
Zubly __ _--
Habersham ..
A. C. L. r-of-wy
Harmon .-._-
Florence -
Lumber ------
Bowen..--- .__
City Limits __
Price __--.
Taylor . -
ughs ------
Dtrayton __ _-
Bull .._-
Gwinnett
Hall --__--.-.
Florance - ___.
Ott ____
Zubly ____ -
Bull .- __
Jefferson ____
Br*ghton Lane
St. Julian
Barnard _____
Bast Broad ._.
P0KPO8B
Curb.
Curb.
Curb:
Curb.
Sewers.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Paving.
Curb.
Curb.
Sidewalk.
"Pn V1TU-*
Curb.
Paving.
Car' Tracks.
Curb.
Curb.
House Drainage.
Qiriownllr
Ti*ii/*lrl
Curb.
Sewer
Sidewalk.
Sew*?
Curb.
Curb.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 141
Grades and LinesMiscellaneous.
Grade for catch basin southwest corner of Tattnall and
Charlton streets.
Grade for curb around City Hall.
Street lines for crossings at A. C. L. Ry., 37th and
Habersham streets.
Grades and lines for paving Coffee Alley.
Grades and lines for stand opposite Abercorn street.
Grades and lines for curb around grass plot west of
City Hall.
Grade for pavement Gorrie Ice Co. yard.
Locating corner of Paulsen and intersecting streets
from Anderson to 37th streets.
Lines for Atlantic and intersecting streets through
Millen Farm, lot 8.
Line for fence west side of lot 68, Springfield.
Line for fence on the west side of the Crematory lot.
Line and grade for Bilbo Canal south of Gwinnett street
for substituting sewer for canal.
Lines and grades for Bilbo Canal north of Bolton street.
Grades and lines for curb around public school building
at Barnard and Taylor streets.
Grades and lines for walks at Bull street slip.
Grades for paving intersection of Whitaker street and
The Strand.
Grade for gutter at Jefferson and Bay streets.
142 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Grade for sidewalk on the east of Forsyth Park and
Park Extension.
Line for street 30 feet wide from Bolton street to Park
avenue, running along the A. C. L. right of way.
Lines for sidewalk east side of Forsyth Park and Park
Extension.
Grade for sidewalk on the northwest corner of 34th
and Drayton streets.
Grades for sidewalk on the southwest corner 38th and
Burroughs streets.
Grades for sidewalk on the northwest corner Waters
road and Gwinnett street.
Grades for sidewalk on the southeast corner of 35th
and Barnard streets.
Grades for sidewalk on the northwest corner of Burroughs and 38th streets.
Lines for opening streets and lanes through Schley
Tract in Sehley Ward.
Lines and grades for curb in Dixon Park.
Levels of Streets.
STREET
Reynolds __
Henry Lane _
FROM
Thirty-Seventh
Paulsen .- _.
To
Anderson _ ..
Oil -~-_,--
PURPOSE
Sewer.
Sewer.
Thirty-Seventh'at A. C. L. Ry. 1 Crossing _.... Grading.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 143
Profiles and Cross-Sections Streets.
STREET
Reynolds ____
Henry Lane _
Reynolds
Bilbo Canal _
FROM
Thirty-Seventh
Paulsen
Thirty -Seventh
Bolton _ --..
To
Anderson _ ..
Ott .... ..____
Anderson ____
Gwinnett ..__
PURPOSE
Old Drainage.
Sewer.
Pr/jsent Drainage.
Covering.
Measurements of Streets.
STREET
Whitaksr ____
Bull __-___.
Gwinnett _ -
Dufty __ __ .
Thirty-Eighth -
West Broad ..
Thirty-Sixth..
Price ____ .
Thirty-Seventh
Thirty-Sixth .
Thirty-Fifth __
William -----
Reynolds - __.
Thirty-Fifth __
Taylor _____
Montgomery _
Coffee Alley --
Pirlce _ .. _ _
FROM
York Lane ---
York .. ___
Price - -
Prfpn
37th Lane __
West Broad ..
Habersham . .
Habersham - .
Fahm _______
President __..
Bull . ._____
Indian . ___ .
n-flstnn
Bay __ ._---. Rftrnnrrl
Whi'taker . _
Gaston _
Gaston _ ....
Price
Lincoln _ _ . Brvan ...
Bay Lane -
Henry --- _ -
East Broad
Lincoln -.. .__
"?ators Ave . .
Brouglttcn
To
Oglethorpe Av.
York Lane ._-
Habfersham _
Forty-Second .
Bullock ______
Gwinnett ....
Florence _...
Price _ -....
Plant ___ ..
Oglethorpe Av.
Bull .. __ ...
River _________
Gwinriett . ___
Park Av. . ___
West Broad ..
Bav ___ . _.
Habarsham . .
City Limits..-
Bay .. .
PURPOSE
Sidewalk.
Sidewalk.
Sidewalk.
Sidewalk.
Sidewalk.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Curb.
Paving.
Paving.
Paving.
Paving.
Paving.
Paving.
Paving.
Paving.
Water Main, Gas
Main, etc.
144 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Levels Miscellaneous.
Levels of Bilbo Canal from Bolton to Gwinnett streets
for covering same.
Levels to determine the difference in elevation of water
in wells at Old Water Works and Pump Cylinder.
Levels for site for Chatham Academy.
Levels to determine difference of elevation between
Gaston street sewer, west of Jefferson, and Huntingdon
and Alice streets sewers.
Miscellaneous Measurements and Surveys.
Survey of intersection of Bay and Barnard for City
Hall grounds.
Survey of wharf at the foot of Drayton street.
Survey of Bilbo Canal from Bolton to Gwinnett streets.
Measurement of sidewalk around City Hall and east
to Drayton street.
Measurement of paving in the Gorrie Co.'s yard.
Measurement of sidewalk lot 10, 1st Tything, Reynolds
Ward.
Measurement of cement sidewalk in park west of tin;
City Hall.
Superintending staking out of railway turnout, Taggart's wharf.
Measurements for locations of conduits of telephone
companies' fire boxes, and test poles for Fire Department.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 146
Measurement of repairs to cement sidewalk in Park
Extension.
Survey of encroachments on River street at the foot of
Reynolds street.
Survey of the Granger Tract for opening streets in
Dixon, Granger and Watson Wards.
Measurement of cement floor in the City Market, south
side.
Measurement showing obstruction of River street by
engine house of Rourke's marine railway.
Measurement of repairs needed for paving at intersection of Liberty and Barnard streets.
Location of stones in the Goodwin Tract.
Measurement of cement sidewalk in Emmet Park.
Measurement of roadways of unpaved streets between
Drayton and Whitaker from State to Gaston for paving
Survey of Lawton Tract for opening streets in Lawton
Ward.
Measurements of lanes between Drayton and Whitaker
streets, from State to Gaston, for paving.
Measurement of roadway in Emiriet Park for pavinjr.
Measurement of sidewalk and crosswalk Forsyth Park
and Park Extension.
Survey of part of Eastland, M. & M. L. Co.'s property,
for opening Anderson street east of Waters road.
Measurement of paving in rear City Hall.
Survey lot 69, Gumming Ward, and part of St. Paul
street, for exchange of part of street for part of lot.
146 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Tracings of Lots.
a
s. LOT No. SECTION WABD
2105 -_J
2 Strip in rear 17 & 18
2'Strip in rear E% 33
3! Strip in rear 4 & 5_
E. portion 90%.
3
2
7 __....._..__.. old Water Works track
1 . old Water Works track
Strip in rear of 19.
2 Strip in rear of 23
31
320 .___
2'94 ______
293 ___-
264 ._.-__
215 and 16
1 North, pt 3 and 4-~_
I 32 to 40___. ___
II to 8_.-__--__
317 to 32_______.
3P and Q_
391 ___-
l!37 _____._-_.
2 A to K_________
2 W % J- - -
2 North pt. 34 and 35_
369 _____--__-
261 ____-___..
I'l and 2__.____._
2 36, 37, 44, 45, 52, 53
I and 60 __._._
Kings Sub..
Sec. A...__
Kings Sub._
Sec. 9
Sec. 17 ________
McNish'Tractll
Kings Sub _
Millin Lots
Gumming.
Gumming.
Reppard.
Gumming.
Ovens.
R,eppard.
Reppard.
Norwood.
Denvere.
Owena.
Owens.
Jonnston.
Fleming.
South Oglethorpe.
Owens.
Teynac.
Waxing.
Owens.
iOwens.
Law.
IKelly.
jColding.
Gumming.
Gumming.
Norwood.
Gray son & Harmon.
Gumming.
TracingsMiscellaneous.
Plan of portion of Reppard and Gumming Wards,
showing strips in rear of the lots on south side of 3?rd
Street
Plan of wharf at the foot of Drayton street. (Three
copies.)
MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 147
Plan for opening Duffy street, Duffy lane and Henry
lane through the Waldburg property, Weed Ward. (Two
copies.)
Plan showing present and proposed location of railroad
tracks in Stiles Avenue' to connect D. C. W. and Mfg. Co.
with S. A. L. Ry. . (Two copies.)
Plan of S. A. L. By. property on Cemetery and Gwinnett streets.
Plan of 2, 3 and north part of 4, 11, 12 and unnamed
part of Sec. B.
Plan of Sub. 4 of the land of Merchants & Mechanics'
Land Co.
Plan of a portion of the Meadows in Ballantyne Ward
showing streets and lanes purchased by.the City.
Plan showing northeast part of 37 Eeppard Ward and
north part of 34-41 Gumming Ward on the north side 33rd
lane.
Plan of the Fair Ground Tract now belonging to the
City. (Two copies.)
Plan of the Granger Tract in Dixon, Granger and Watson Wards showing streets purchased by the City.
Plan of the Lawton Tract, in Lawton Ward, showing
proposed streets.
Plan of strips in rear of lots 36-53, Cummings Ward.
Plan of Teynac lot 2 for opening North and South
streets. (Two copies.)
Plan of the Granger Tract in Dixon, Watson and Granger Wards for opening streets. (Two copies.)
Plan for covering Bilbo Canal from Bolton to Gwinnett streets, (Two copies.)
148 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Plan of lots for park in blocks 7, 13, 14 and 22 on East
Broad and 39th.streets.
Bine Prints.
No. of
Prints.
2 Plan showing strip of land at rear of lot 27, Beppard
Ward.
4 Plan showing strip of land at rear of lot 19, Beppard
Ward.
3 Plan of Bay street from Drayton to Barnard streets.
2 Plan showing strip of land in rear of 4 and 5 Beppard
Ward.
2 Plan of strip of land in rear of B. %, 33 Beppard
Ward.
1 Plan of wharf at foot of Drayton street.
2 Plan of lot 1, Old Water Works Tract.
4 Plan of Henry street extension from Waters avenue to
Thunderholt road.
1 Plan of portion of Schwarz or Lathrop avenue for
paving.
2 Plan of a portion of Reppard and Camming Wards.
5 Plan of Price street for proposed paving.
10 Plan showing Bilho Canal from mouth of Bol ton-street
sewer to Gwinnett-street culvert.
5 Plan of Whitaker street for proposed paving.
3 Plan showing resubdivisiou of lots 37, 38, and 39, 64, 65,
and 66 Barry Ward.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 149
No. of.
Prlnte.
2 Map of the County showing City Limits.
23 Plan of site for Y. M. C. A. building.
2 Plan of lots in Meldrim "Ward.
4 Plan showing present and proposed location of R. E.
track on Stiles Ave. to connect D. C. W. and Mfg.
Co.
3 Plan of Gaston St. from Price St. to W. Broad for proposed paving.
2 Plan of West Broad St. for proposed paving.
14 Plan of proposed connection of part of fire alarm system with underground conduit of the Bell and Ga.
Tel. Go's.
3 Plan of covering for Bilbo Canal from Bolton to Gwinnett.
2 Plan of strip of land in rear of 20 Eeppard Ward.
4 Plan of wharf adopted by council.
2 Plan of lots offered to the city by Platshek & Co. for
Park site.
4 Plan of the city and vicinity.
8 Plan showing parts of lots 45 and 46 Estill Sub. Solomons Ward, needed for opening Barnard St.
2 Colonial Park.
2 PJans of Abercorn street from Oglethorpe to Liberty.
1 Plan of lot 37-, see. 17, Law Ward, needed for opening
Burroughs and 35th streets.
8 Map of the Fair Ground Tract now belonging to the
City.
150 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
No. of
Prints.
3 Plan of the Goodwin Tract.
3 Plan of York street for proposed paving.
17 Plan of the City showing water mains, fire hydrants
and valves.
3 Plans showing streets laid out by the City through
the Lawton Tract.
1 Plan and profile showing the present condition of the
drainage of Reynolds street between Anderson and
33rd streets.
Miscellaneous.
Supervised construction of fence, division line between City and Shiels Est. Fig Island.
Examination of retaining wall at foot of Montgomery
street to determine the practicability of lowering Central
of Georgia Eailway tracks with safety to wall.
This office has on file about 5,000 maps and plans from
which references are constantly sought by the people. In
addition to the above work, a great deal of time is consumed in the care of these maps and in furnishing information
Report of Encroachments.
Property lines between the Union Station Co. and
Reppard, Snedeker & Co. of lots 67 and 68, Springfield
Plantation.
Building in River street at Reynolds street.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 151
Recapitulation.
No.
Survey* of lots with, plats, for private parties__106
Maps and plats of lots__________ 15
Survey of lots________________.. 8
Maps and plats, miscellaneous__ 28
Survey of streets___________________ 4
Maps and plats of streets__________- 7
Tracings of streets___________ 10
Street lines given during the year_______137
Estimates of streets_________________ 15
Estimates, miscellaneous__________ 13
Grades and lines________ _____ 34
Grades and lines, miscellaneous- 23
Levels of streets__________________ 3
Profiles and cross sections streets_____________ 4
Miscellaneous measurements and surveys______ 24
Tracings of lots_____________________ 61
Tracings, miscellaneous____________ 25
Blue prints-_______159
Eeport of encroachments__________________ 2
Measurements of streets___ 25
Levels, miscellaneous______________-_ 4
Total _________________________709
Recommendations.
First. That the present ordinance fixing the fee for
surveys arbitrarily at $2.00 per lot regardless of its size
or the difficulties of the survey be changed so that these
surveys will at least pay for themselves, instead of being
an expense to the city.
152 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Second. That whereas this office is now maintained
at an apparent expense to the city, that some method be
adopted where it can be placed on a paying basis.
I would suggest without going into detail that for all
work done either for private parties or for other City Departments a reasonable charge be made and the proceeds
turned into the City Treasury and credited to this Department.
Third. Requests for information, maps or work to be
done or furnished, should come through the heads of the
Departments concerned.
Fourth. All plans of construction should be prepared
by this office and after approval by the proper authority
the accomplishment of these plans should be under the
supervision of this Department.
My predecessor Col. W. J. Winn died Nov. 25, 1906. I
was elected by Council Dee. 19, 1906 to fill th unexpirecl
term.
Respectfully submitted,
J. W. HOWARD,
City Engineer.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 158
BOABD OF SANITARY COMMISSIONERS.
Savannah, Qa., January 1, 1907.
To the Honorable Herman Myers, Mayor,-
City of Savannah.
Sir:The report, for the year ended December 31,
1906, of that part of the Health Department under control of The Board of Sanitary Commissioners is submitted
for your consideration.
This report will not cover the removal of waste matters, nor will it touch on House Drainage, for the good
reason that these two important branches 'of the Health
Department are not under the control of the Board of
Sanitary Commissioners, nor have they ever been although
it is patent to everyone that they should be. Later, in
this report, the conduct of the two services will be
handled.
The year 1906, from a sanitary standpoint, was the
best ever known for the records fail to show anything
like the low rate of mortality recorded during this year.
This statement holds good even when the health records
did not show more than 80 per cent of the deaths which
occurred here, for such the records were prior to 1889.
The mortality by months here follows:

Deaths From Natural Causes.
Month White Negroes Total
January _.________ 42 82 124
February _____________ 27 70 97
March _______________ 47 73 120
April ____..__________ 46 85 131
May _____ 46 69 115
154 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Deaths From Natural CausesContinued.
"Whites Negroes Total
June ________________ 36 84 120
July ________________ 47 71 128
August ______________ 41 73 114
September ________.____ 40 92 132
October ______________ 44 91 135
November ________- ___ 54 87 141
December _____________ 47 103 150
Totals ______________ 517 980 1497
Annual Ratio Per 1000.
White Negroes Total
15.66 25.12 20.79
The Principal Causes of Death Were:
White Negroes Total
Tuberculosis ___________ 55 163 218
Heart Disease __________ 41 62 103
Bright's Disease ________ 33 53 86
Malarial Fevers ________ 15 64 79
Pneumonia ____________ 25 51 76
Marasmus _____________ 16 47 63
Note the difference in the deaths between the races in
Tuberculosis, Marasmus, and Malarial Fever. In the first
named disease when one white dies, three negroes are taken
off. In Marasmus, a wasting disease, generally of children,
the same thing occurs. In Malarial Fever it is one white
death to four Negro deaths. A remarkable feature 'of our
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 155
mortality from this cause is that, twenty to twenty-five years
ago, with less than half our present population, the deaths
among the whites were double what they are now while the
deaths among the negroes have not decreased to any marked
extent. Over half the deaths in 1906 from Malarial Fevers
among the whites were at the different hospitals and occurred in persons brought to the city for treatment.
Births.
We probably have better returns in our vital statistics than any city in the South and the births reported to
this office is nearly a complete record:
Month White Negroes Total
January ______________ 57 73 130
February______________ 60 65 125
March __._____________ 49 93 142
April ___________. ___ 65 54 119
May ___________ _____ 53 ' 74 127
June ________________ 61 65 126
July _________________ 84 76 160
August______________ 76 101 177
September _____________ 56 100 156
October _____________ 64 95 159
November _____________ 75 91 166
December ____________ 62 103 165
Total ______________ 762 990 1752
Excess of Births Over Deaths.
White Negro Total.
245 10 255
156 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Contagious and Infections Diseases.
(Typhoid Fever.)
From this cause there were twenty-one deaths, fourteen
among the white and seven among the colored. Ten of the
deaths among the white people occurred in persons who
were brought to this city for treatment, ill with the
disease, and in the month of July this practice became so
common that the Board of Sanitary Commissioners, believing that a transmissible disease should not be brought
to Savannah, forbade such cases being brought here. This
regulation went into effect August 1st and here is the result: There were thirteen (13) deaths recorded from
Typhoid Fever in July and the next one that 'occurred
was in November. This statement is submitted to show
the wisdom of the regulation put in force. Under the law
of vital statistics a death must be recorded where it occurs
and here were people living in Liberty, Bryan and Bnlioch counties contracting a transmissible disease by, and
it was proved, drinking from polluted water supplies and
brought here to die for, in th'is disease, the removal of a
person with the disease well developed is contraindicated
and the proof of this is here presented when the statement is made that, of the ten white persons brought fc>
Savannah in July suffering from Typhoid Fever, only
eight of the ten died. It is a penalty of a hospital town
situated like Savannah that the death rate will be augmented by deaths of persons brought to such a town for
treatment, (Fifty-seven deaths among the whites occurred
in such persons in 1906) but the line had to be drawn at
transmissible diseases and especially where the bringing
of such patients was against their recovery.
It should be stated that another reason for shutting
out such patients was that there prevailed for some
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 157
months the impression that this disease existed to some
extent and while there was, probably, less of it than we
had for years, the opposite opinion was held until several
of the best medical men in the city assisted in quieting
some of the nervous people.
While all Typhoid Fever does not originate directly
from a polluted water supply still just so long as the City of
Savannah depends on artesian wells there can be no wide
spread of Typhoid Fever.
(Diphtheria.)
There were seventeen cases reported during the year,
with! a mortality of 9, all of whom were white children.
Twenty-five cases prevailed during tbJe last three months
of the year and 1 of the deaths occurred during this
period. The disease was checked in the latter part of
December and but 3 cases are carried over into the new
year.
(Scarfet Fever.)
Therewere seventeen eases reported during the year,
all mild, for there was no mortality from this source. The
last death from Scarlet Fever in this city was in May 1903.
It is clearly in evidence that the disease neither prevails
as it did formerly nor is it as malignant as it once was.
In former years it was punishment for your Health Officer to observe some of the malignant cases in children
who succumbed to this disease in spite of the best medical
skill in the city.
(Small-Pox.)
There were five white eases during the year and but
one was contracted in Savannah: One death resulted.
This fatal case occurred in the person of a prominent business man who never had been vaccinated and who returned
158 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
to this city after an absence of five weeks and developed
the disease on the fifth day after his return. The case
of local origin was a child of tbfis gentleman who, also,
never had been vaccinated until after an exposure of six
days and in spite of this exposure preceding the vaccination the child developed Varioloid, i. e., Small-pox modified by vaccination, which, was contracted from a case of
Hemorrhagic Small-pox. There were fourteen cases
among the negroes the first four being imported from
Guyton, Ga., and there were no fatalities. The last case
was on May 27thv. We end the year without a case but
can hardly hope that we can go through the winter without a ease, as the surrounding cities have ttte disease.
(Measles.)
This disease, nearly always mild in this climate, prevailed to some little extent, with one death.
(Whooping Cough.)
There was but little of \this disease, so common among
young children, with no deaths among the whites. There
were two deaths among the negroes, however.
Superintendent Ashmore of the Public School System,
a most careful official, calls on this office each! year just
before the schools are opened and the rule governing compulsory vaccinaftion is rigidly enforced. Prof. Ashmore in
this and all other matters of school sanitation is of great
assistance to our Board. So far as your Health Officer can
learn, he is the only superintendent, in this section of the
country, to adopt such precautions as would make it impossible for an unvaceinated child to enter the public schools.
(Cemetery.)
For about the tenth time your Health Officer would call
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 159
your attention to the necessity of selecting a site for a new
cemetery. Laurel Grove Cemetery is in the city and in
that part of it which does not grow, which is one argument
against the further use of it except by those persons now
owning lots therein.
Eemoval of Waste Matter.
The removal of waste matter cannot be the work of any
body except that part of the City government which is held
responsible for the health of the community. As conducted
in this city and as far back as the memory <of man runs this
work has never been conducted properly and never will be
just so long as there is no sanitary responsibility on the official in charge of this work. The scavenger or garbage
service calls for the removal of solid kitchen wastes. As
conducted in this city less than 30 per cent of !the material
removed by this service is true garbage. The scavenger
wagons have been used to remove material, 70 per cent of
which they should not have touched. They have been used
to do the work of the Streets and Lanes Department to the
extent of giving an imperfect and irregular removal of
waste matter, hidden from the public but a menace to the
health of citizens.
The wagons used for hauling garbage are also used for
hauling all the forage for animals ait the City Lot and this
occupies -one day in every month in the year. They have,
also, been used for hauling street paving material. Before the
City sold this material to the County to be removed to the
County farm, garbage was placed in the City limits to obtain
short hauls and this depositing of decaying animal matter has
been no small factor in augmenting the death rate. Evidence
of this can be had on demand but the presentation "of it
would not make good reading. Your attention is called to
this fact: That just so long as the scavenger wagons are used
160 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
to haul material belonging to the Streets and Lanes Department a poor garbage service will result. These facts are
presented to you without any desire to attack any administration of any department under any regime but the Board
of Sanitary Commissioners are responsible for the health of
this city and if they cannot control this, a mos!t important
feature of it, at least, your Health Officer will place the
blame where it belongs.
Home Drainage.
It is not an unfair proposition (that the matter of House
Drainage is one of control by the Board of Health for, certainly, house drainage has a controlling effect on the health
of the people of any community. It is a matter of record
that the Board of Sanitary Commissioners never has had
control of this work. Formerly, there was a board of control for the inspection of plumbing. Nothing has been heard
of this board in several years.
The Inspector of Plumbing should be tinder the control
of The Board of Sanitary Commissioners and if he is placed
there his clerk, for whom there is absolutely no necessity,
could be replaced by a practical plumber and this service
would soon be on a working basis.
Water Supply.
This office probably knows more abouft the water supply
or rather the lack of it than any other branch of the City
government for the reason that our sanitary inspectors visit
every premise in the city and. incidentally, it should be
seated that these men report over seventy-five per cent 'of
the leaks known to the Water Department; in fact for soma
time, the reports of these men have been the only reliable
source of information as to leaks in the water supply. It is
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 161
apparent that, even if we used the unconnected wells to increase our water supply, our artesian wells will not give us
an adequate water supply, for, if the wells in use are not
failing, and it looks as if they are, it will be impossible to
obtain a sufficient supply from the artesian with an increasing population. It is obvious that the City must look
farther than artesian wells for her water supply for all
purposes. Your Health Officer is not a Sanitary Engineer
and such a man should not be in charge of the Water Works
Department, but he has a fair knowledge of the sanitary
value of a plentiful water supply. The time has arrived when
another source should be considered. It will be too late to
wait until you find the City suffering on account of lack of
water for drinking and sanitary purposes. The time has arrived when the different systems of filtration should be considered and the location of site on or near the Savannah
river, for this appears to be the only source of supply.
Sanitary Inspections.
The work of ithe Sanitary Inspectors has been under
the immediate supervision of Mr. John J. Stafford who has
directed that work with diligence and zeal. The City never
had a more industrious and painstaking official. He has,
also, superintended the work of house fumigation in cases
of contagious and infectious diseases and his work
throughout was one of credit to him and to this office.
Some 'of the sanitary inspectors have given the City
the best of work; others have not. The work of the
sanitary inspectors is not only of value to our individual
service but has been of great help to every other branch
of the City government. Their work is almost exclusively
in places hidden from the public eye and, naturally, is
not appreciated by our citizens.
162 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Care of the Indigent Sick.
The City has obtained a good medical service from
the three hospitals for the care of white patients, namely:
St. Joseph's Hospital, Savannah Hospital, and the Park
View Sanitarium. The Georgia Infirmary has given
value received for the money paid to that institution, but as
stated to City Council in December, the Charity Hospital,
to which the City gives $900.00 per year for the care of
one sixth of the Negro sick, does not deserve further
recognition at the hands of the City. (My reasons for
this being poor building, poor equipment, and poor medical service.)
Care of the Negroes.
They are here in excess of the white population, and
this means bad results from every standpoint. There are,
probably, 72,000 people within the extended limits of this
city and of that number 33,000 are whites and 39,000 are
Negroes. It is an acknowledged fact that the negroes
are, as a race, absolutely dependent upon the white peoipie and it is just as true that 33,000 white people cannot
properly care for 39,000 negroes and when this occurs the
dependent race is a burden in every sense.
Last July, your Health Officer went over this ground
at the meeting of the Georgia League of Municipalities
and the mayors of nearly every city represented there
agreed that the above proposition held good in their respective communities.
The enforcement of the Vagrant Law was recommended by me at that meeting and it met with approval
in some instances and disapproval in others. The main
argument against it was that the present law was de-
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 163
feetive. The remedy is apparent. Revise the present law
to make it of practical benefit for, if there ever was a
necessity for action, it is to throw additional sanitary influences around 'the negro. There is but one other city
that needs these measures more than Savannah and that
is Charleston, S. C., the only other city that has an excess
of negroes and it furnishes the highest death rate of any
city in the United States, according to Government reports. As suggested by me in my Annual Report for the
year 1905 a commission should be appointed to look into
the sociological and sanitary conditions which confront
us. The City government has gone as far as it can by
ordinary methods and we face the followings issues: First,
one set of people, the Caucasian, with a normal death-rate
of less than 16.00 per thousand per annum and right
alongside of them is the Negro race with a death-rate of
25 to 30 per thousand. Second: The first named- race
furnishing a normal amount of criminals and paupers and
the second race of people furnishing an abnormal percentage of lawbreakers and paupers.
Is the Negro receiving a square deal? Let this commission investigate the houses he lives in; why, in his race
is Tuberculosis increasing; why he furnishes his enormous
quota to the chain-gang and the penetentiary; investigate
the industrial insurance companies, the money-lenders, the
installment furniture dealers and, finally, the matter of
the surplus population which is a most potent factor in producing that class o'f persons which is dangerous to this community and must contaminate its health and prosperity.
Better the creation of such a commission, at least for this
city -and section than the theoretical gatherings at Tuberculosis Conventions and Immigration Congresses. The
negro is with you for all time. He is what you will make
him and it is "up" to the white people to prevent Mm
from becoming a criminal and to guard him against Tuber-
164 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
culosis, Syphilis, etc. If he is tainted witU disease you
will suffer; if he develops criminal tendencies you will
be affected. You cannot observe these things without going
where he lives in colonies in this city. Investigate them
and you will soon learn that if he desired to improve his
sanitary condition he could not do it. Observe the house
he must live in; the food that hie must eat and learn of
all his environments.
This is no sentimental dissertation; it is a statement
of cold-blooded facts that is of as much value to the
whites as it is to the negroes.
The Extension of House Drainage.
The City should institute the separate system of house
drainage in all parts of the city. In Collinsville, and
other outlying sections the priyy vault is still in vogue.
Maritime Quarantine.
Under authority of the Quarantine Act passed by
Congress in June 1906 the entire system of maritime
quarantine will go under the control of the National
government. At the present time but two states are left
out of the fold and within a year's time the fear of Yellow Fever introduction will have passed away
An Unpopular Law.
"With a defective law requiring the removal 'of weeds
and -other unsightly vegetable growth this office has met
with considerable opposition in trying to keep a clean
city but even with the defective law and factions opposition we came nearer ridding the city faf mosquitos than
ever before. So rank was the growth of weeds in one
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 185
section of the city that it required axes to remove the
bushes and young trees. At this place were found snakes
and ifi\ one instance a pen filled with hogs was found
among high weeds. The fight against weeds goes hand
in hand with' the fight against mosquitos and there is no
doubt that these active measures account for the decrease
in Malarial Fevers. All receptacles which hold water and
the catch basins for carrying off stormwater have been
oiled from May 1st to November 1st.
To you and the other members of the Board of Sanitary Commissioners your executive officer is under many
official obligations. Your endorsement of his work is
thoroughly appreciated. To have served with you and
the other members has been an honor and a pleasure.
Very respectfully,
W. F. BEUNNBB, M. D.,
Health Officer.
Annual Report of Deaths from Natural Causes in the Oity of Savannah Qa., for 1906.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Abscess ----_____..__.___._ _ ...
Abscess of Liver ____ __________
Angina Ludovici . _ __ ...
Angina Pectoris ___ .._ ____
Aneurism __ ... __ ._...__.____.
Aneurism of Aorta.. ... _____ -
Apoplexy ____ ...... __ .. __ .
Appendicitis - ___________ ..
Apthae ........ _______ ..
Asthenia .. __ __ . __ . _ ..
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Anaemia _ ______ ....
Bladder, Rupture of .-._.
Bladder, Hemorrhage of __
Bowels, Congestion of _ ..___ ...
Bowels, Obstruction of_
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Annual Report of Deaths from Natural Causes in the City of Savannah, Qa.. for 1906Continued.
CAUSE OP DEATH.
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Fistula, Veslcal-Vaginal...-- .
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Annual Report of Deaths from Natural Causes in the City of Savannah, Qa.. for 1906Continued.
CAUSE OP DEATH.
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MONTHS
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CAUSE OF DEATH.
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174 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Longevity.
White Male.
Dryfus, Emanuel
Bostock, George. _-
Brasnan, John --..-. ...
Webb, Richard,.. ..-.___
Herschback, Joseph.
OTDonovan, Cornelius _
Stnder, Victor S- _ -
WilllTifr T3 IT
Proctor, William _.. ___
Mltchell, Samuel.. ___ .
Nash, L. C- ____ ..__.
McDennott, John
Pryor, Thomas
Elliott, Stephen __. ....
Kelly, William ____ ._...
Nichols, George T _ _..--
Sutten, R. M __ .
Fallen, Mathew__ __.
Lovett, Patrick-...-.-
Richardson, Lyman. -
Sbeveis, Samuel B-._ ...
Sehuler, J. C _ -
Bernhardt, Henry
Jones, Robert S__ Cnrost Q T*
White, Charles 3--
Afl.
86
85
85
85
84
84
84
82
79
79
78
78
76
75
75
74
74
74
74
73
72
72
72
72
71
71
70
70
70
70
White Female.
Pitts, Mary J., Mrs. ___ .
Littlsfleld, E. G., Mrs __ .
Cleary, Mary E., Mrs ~
Gammon, Elizabeth, Mrs.
Wescott, Martha, Mrs _ .
Hussey, Bridget, Mrs .
Palmer, Amanda, Mrs .
Jones, Mary L., Mrs_- __
Llghtbourne, C., Mrs _..
Quantock, E. M., Mrs __ -
Bond, Anna M., Mrs. __ .
Boyd, Agnes O., Mrs.- __
Hart, Julia B., Mrs _ ....
Johnson, Jane A., Mrs. _
Strong, Louisa H., Mrs ...
Brown, Ann, Mrs--..--_-
Krenson, Sarah E., Mrs
Sessons, Ann H., Mrs
Spencer, H. W., Mrs
Fennsll, Rebecca, Mrs.-
McLaughlln, M., Mrs ___ '
Robb, Mary E., Mrs ____...
Sullivan, Catherine, Mrs..
George, Ada, Mrs _.
Fitzgerald, Mary, Mrs _
Kohler, 'Louisa, Mrs.
Oliver, Georgia A., Mrs _
Thompson, Alice V., Mrs.
Cronln, Mary, Mrs
Lamar, Katie H., Mrs .
Nunzeger, Mary E., Mrs..
Rowlan, Fannie, Mrs .....
Snead, Henrietta, Mrs..
Casserly, Mary A., Mrs
Crawford, ElizabatJh, Mrs
Winchester, C., Mrs
Cave, Julia A., Mrs _ _.
McDennott, C., MiS
Armand, Mary A., Mrs....
Orme, E. J. L., Mrs
Bryan, D. A., Mrs____ .
Hancock, Lucy, Mrs. .
Palmer, Mary E., Mrs-;.-
Kennedy, Margaret, Mrs.
Stone, Jennette E., Mrs__.
Saussy, Gertrude C., Miss.
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88
87
87
88
86
85
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85
84
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83
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76
76
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74
74
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MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 175
Longevity.Continued.
Negroes Male.
Green, Jack
Roberts, Darts
Judkins, Ephraim
Langston, Jack-
Reid, William ___ ...
Moultrie, James
Campbell, Oscar _____
Butler, Thomas
Charlton, Robert .
Dickson, Dorsey.
Green, William -
Hafford, Daniel .
Johnson, Henry
{Tones, Slnol _
McNeil, Daniel. _ _
Mitchell, Phtlllp Mit^ell WHHam
Scott, Morris
Singleton, James
Stiles, Sam
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88
86
86
85
85
81
78
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Bolton, Phyllis -
Evans, Margaret-
Reid, Sophie ____ ... .
Thomas, Rachel ______
Kruse, Sarah
Fuller, Fularia _.... _
Murray, Ellen... .........
Randall, Cynthia . . ____
Morrell, Ada _.
Quarter man, Matilda _....
Manigault, Betsy __ ..
Notice, Annie ___ .__
Buggs, Lucinda .
Murphy, Mary__ .
Zant, Harriet.. _ ___.
Harrison, Frances..
Chlslim, Lizzie _______
Seven, Harriet _
Jones, Mary ... .
Charlton, Annie , . Tegor, Lizzie
Jackson, Lena. _..
Manigo, Isabella.
Washington, Judy
Washington, Lavinla
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Savannah _ _ _____ ___
Georgia, other than Savannah. _
South Carolina ...... __ . __ ...
North Carolina . ....... _ .
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Florida .... ....... _ ...........
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Maina . ___ ... __ ...
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Michigan __.._.__ _ __ .... ....
Connecticut _... _ _____ __
Rhode Island .... _ __ .... __ ..
West Virginia . ___ ..........
Wisconsin _.__... ___ ____ ..
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178 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
REPORT OF CITY PHYSICIANS.
HON. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor,
City of Savannah.
I hereby present to you my Annual Report as City Physician for the Western Division for 1906, which you will
find in a tabulated form.
Remarks as Follows:.
1st. On account of the great population of the colored
people in what is known as the western division of the city
the work is too much for one man to do.
2nd. On account of the many bar rooms, there is a
good deal of crime, which usually ends in a shooting or
cutting scrape. Next, there are the public works, such as
docks, factories and railroads, where many accidents occur.
All these together make the work of the physician in this
location exceedingly heavy.
3rd. Then the courts will require a good deal of your
time as a witness in cases from the very fact of having
treated the injured.
4th. Then many times, in the late hours of the night,
when rest is so much needed, the police barracks will call
the physician up, and in so doing he has to pay his own
hack fare, and in many cases renders quite a hardship. All
of these I have experienced.
"While my duties have been many. I have done the best
I could.
Respectfully yours,
RICHARD H. JOHNSON, M. D.,
City Physician, Western District.
Tabulated Annual Report City Physician for Western District, for the Year 1906.
MONTHS
March __ __ ___ . _ .
April ......................... May....... .................... June...... __ .......... ... July ..........................
October. _ ..... ... ... . ....
Official Visits
195
281 203 250
208
233
829
222
254
18
178
212
2698
House Visits
272
867
819
891
286
251
865
852
496
864
809
828
4199
Number ofPatients
415
594
452
618
450
483
629
481
651
48.1
428
470
6004
Ga. Infirmary
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13
15
11
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10
11
17
12
16
23
25
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9
170
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8
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1
3
15
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75
50
82
50
54
40
69
65
49
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62
93
29
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85
72
84
468
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91
84
8
4
236
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16
8
46
88
88
88
54
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20
28
370
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18
24
28
16
22
28
22
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180 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1907.
HON. HERMAN MYEBS, Mayor,
City of Savannah.
SffiI have the honor of submitting my report as Oily
Physician of the Eastern District for the year ending December 31st, 1906, the following being a tabulated report
of patients attended:
MONTHS
March _ __ _____
April ---.-_
May ____ ... ___ ..
June ---------
July _________ _
August _ ......_ . _..
September _ ------
October _----__--- _
November .. ___ -----
December
Total _____ .-.-
Office Calls
192
182
217
225
207
179
217
191
182
207
161
135
2295
Htme Visits
221
149
248
861
235
217
202
242
248
256
206
240
2725
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4
343
800
374
870
862
826
857
852
841
863
800
297
4085
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7
4
4
3
6
5
3
3
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1
1
1
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1
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I find quite a decrease in amount of sickness, attributable largely to our very excellent system of house drainage
and efficient services of the Health Office.
Respectfully,
J. H, BUGQ, M. D.,
City Physician, Eastern District.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 181
Southern District, Savannah, Ga., Jan. 4, 1907.
Hon. Mayor and Aldermen, City of Savannah,
GentlemenI herewith send you my report of work
done from July 1906, to Jan. 18907 for the unexpired term.
MONTHS
July ____
October -- --
November -
TlfW'tfvnn TIPI*
Total.-.
1No. ofPatients
16
53
29
53
62
43
257
Colored
8
20
7
38
30
18
116
S
3

8
33
22
20
32
26
141
Sent to Hospitals
Savannah
Hospital
1
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1
3
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2
2
5
Parkview Sanitarium
1
-t
1
1
4
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1
1
1
2
2
7
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1
1
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fr<
1
5
2
5
8
20
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84
22
48
60
85
203
Visits! No.ofHonse
i
26
35
13
24
87
35
170
9B
3 &
80
69
85
72
97
70
373
Respectfully Submitted,
JOHN G. KELLER.
182 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
REPORT OF THE CITY DISPENSARY.
HON. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor.
SIRI have the honor to submit this my report for the
year ending December 31st, 1906. Number of prescriptions filled as follows:
White Colored Total
January ____________ 467 1^678 2,145
February ____________ 465 1,728 2,193
March' ______________ 530 1,830 2,360
April ______________ 515 2,057 2,572
May _______________ 462 1,540 2,002
June _____________ 379 1,550 1,929
July _______________ 254 1,649 1,903
August ___________ 317 1,770 2,087
September ___________ 240 1,553 1,793
October _____________ 354 1,763 2,117
November ___________ 281 1,391 1,672
December ____________ 209 1,319 1,528
4,473 19,828 24,301
Appropriation for the year was $5,000.00.
Expenditure was $4,786.08. This includes prescriptions
and supplies for Police Barracks, Pest House and all the
charitable institutions of the city.
Very respectfully,
L. D. STRUTTON,
Keeper.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 183
EEPOET OF THE INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING.
Savannah, Ga., January 18, 1907.
Hon. Herman Myers,
Mayor City of Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sir:I most respectfully hand you my report for
year 1906.
Statement of Work Performed and Fees Collected.
Total number of fixtures inspected.................. 1,203
Total number of sewers inspected................... Ill
Total number of inspections for Health Dept......... 56
Total inspections for property owners for which no
fee is collected ............................... 55
Total fees collected for year...................... .$601.50
Very respectfully,
THOMAS KENNEY,
Inspector of Plumbing.
184 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
PARK AND TREE COMMISSION.
GEORGE J. BALDWIN__Term Expires January 1st, 1908
J. H. H. ENTELMAN__Term Expires January 1st, 1908
CHARLES S. ELLIS__Term Expires January 1st, 1910
PHILIP D. DAFFIN___Term Expires January 1st, 1912
ISAIAH A. SOLOMONSTerm Expires January 1st, 1912
Chairman,
PHILIP D. DAFFIN.
Vice-Chairman,
CHABLES S. ELLIS.
Secretary,
ISAIAH A. SOLOMONS.
Clerk,
WILLIAM H. ROBERTSON.
Foreman,
JAMES B. WISE.
Florist,
FRANZ SCHWALBE.
Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetery (White Portion).
ROBERT H. CLEMENTS.
Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetary (Colored Portion).
HENRY WILLIS.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 185
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION FOR THE TEAR OF 1906.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 1st, 1907.
HON. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor.
SIRIn accordance with Section 6 of an Act of the
Legislature of the State of Georgia, approved November
30th, 1895, to create and organize a Park and Tree Commission for the City of Savannah, the Commissioners have
the honor to submit this report of their doings for the
past year:
Our Public Grounds.
Acres.
Forsyth Park ________ 10.
Forsyth Extension _______________ 21.
Colonial Park ________________ 6.6
Twenty-five Squares _________________ 21.8
Oglethorpe Green _________ 3.44
Liberty Street Green ___________________ 2.18
Dasher Park ______________________ .2
Thomas Park ______________________ 2.
Wells Square _________________ 1.4
Emmet Park _________________________ 4.75
Myers Park _______________________ 1.56
Cann Park __________-____________ 2.18
Dixon Park _________________________ 1.29
Grayson Park ______________ ____ 1.75
Damn Athletic Field ___________________ 78.40
Park in Dixon Ward (not named) ___________ 2.17
186 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Our Public Grounds.Continued.
Park in Grayson Ward (not named)__________ 2.78
Park in Watson Ward (not named)____ 1.29
Total _______________________164.79
Total area of Parks and Squares_____________164.79
Laurel Grove Cemetery (White, 57.1; Colored, 60.8)_117.9
Total area of our Public Grounds______282.69
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Parks and Squares.
There has been appropriated during the year_$ 9,000.00
There has been expended______________ 10,020.17
Budget being overdrawn_____________$ 1,020.17
Parks and Squares (Tree Planting).
There has been appropriated during the year__$ 1,000.00
There has been expended_____.________ 1,073.40
Budget being overdrawn_____$ 73.40
Parks and Squares (Tree Nursery).
There has been appropriated during the year____$ 500.00
There has been expended_________________ 499.80
Balance unexpended ____._$ .20
MAYOR'S ANNUAL. REPORT. 187
Laurel Grove Cemetery.
There has been appropriated during the year._$ 6,500.00
There has been expended______________ 6,515.78
Budget being overdrawn______________$ 15.78
Parks and Squares (Special Appropriation City Hall
Grounds.)
There has been appropriated during the year_.._$ 500.00
There has been expended______________ 500.02
Budget being overdrawn______________ .02
Parks and Squares (Special Appropriation East Broad St.
Tree Planting).
There has been appropriated during the year___$500 00
There has been expended________________ 499 63
Balance unexpended$ 37
Parks and Squares (Special AppropriationMule, Lawn
Mowers and Water Wagon).
There has been appropriated during the year_;_$500 00
There has been expended_ 499 48
Balance unexpended___$ 52
Parks and Squares (Special AppropriationSpraying
Apparatus).
There has been appropriated during the year___$300 00
There has been expended______________ 300 00
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Parks and Squares (Special AppropriationEmmet Park,
Concrete Walks).
There has been appropriated during the year___$1,000 00
There has been expended _____________ 1,008 00
Budget being overdra-wn______________$ 8 00
Forsyth Park, Colonial Park, and Bull Street Squares.
Forsyth Park.
There have been set out in this park about one hundred
trees, viz:
30 Elms,
20 Dogwoods,
15 Judas,
10 Oaks,
5 Magnolias,
4 Palmettoes,
20 Ash,
Also 300 Altheas,
50 Calicarpa,
50 Weigelia,
50 Lagerstromia,
and 100 Biota.
1 N
Four beds Roses were planted out, and the usual beds
of tropical plants in the summer.
Four thousand Privet Hedge Cuttings have been planted out, and 4,000 more will be set out the coming spring,
and planting continued until there is a continuous hedge
of Privet enclosing the whole park.
The winter and spring bulbs have been planted out as
follows: 8,250 Hyacinths, 4,000 Narcissus, 2,000 Crocus,
and 1,000 trias. Some of these have already bloomed, and
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have made a pretty showing; the others will comte on later.
The new walks laid around the park will necessitate
the grassing of the vacant spaces on the borders of the
walks, and some rearrangement of the benches, which will
be done after the walks are laid on Gaston and Whitaker
Streets.
I beg also to emphasize the importance of laying more
Concrete Walks in this park. Every walk in the park
should be Concrete. Gravel may do for drives, but it is a
"relic of barbarism" for pedestrian walks.
Bull Street squares have been planted in bulbs, and
the grass has been kept in order.
Colonial Park is in its usual condition. It is impossible
to make any proper showing of this park until the work
there is protected from depradation, which has not been
the ease. It is folly to throw away money on plants and
shrubs to be despoiled by irresponsible parties who are allowed to do as they please. In this connection we respectfully invite the attention of the City Council to the question
of building a handsome Greenhouse and Horticultural Hall
on the vacant part of Colonial Parksuch an edifice as will
not only be adequate to propagate shrubs and plants for use
in th parks and squares, but a building of architectural
beauty to house our growing stock of palms and ferns, and
to be a source of pleasure and a means of education to our
citizens and their families.
This vacant spot can in no other way be used more for
the satisfaction and delight of our people than to make it
a place for them to feast their eyes on the beautiful in nature, and to educate their minds on the chaste in art. The
present greenhouse is in such a dilapidated condition that
it is almost impossible to preserve the plants now stored
there awaiting the spring and summer planting. It now
holds nearly 3,000 stock plants,choice and costly plants,
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such as palms, dracaenas, hibiscus, croton, ferns, caladiums,
etc. Besides these stock plants, which, according to market
prices are worth several thousand of dollars, we have nearly 8,000 plants which we have propagated ourselves. Altogether upwards of 12,000 plantschoice, beautiful plants,
some of them rare and costly, and altogether worth in the
neighborhood of $1,500 or $2,000. Surely this amount of
property is worth preserving, and if a new greenhouse is
not provided it is absolutely necessary that during the present year some provision must be made for a new house
on the present location.
i
Mr. Franz Schwalbe, who is in charge of all this work,
has also had supervision of planting the east side of Bay
Street Strand.
Wells Square, Thomas Place and Dasher Park.
"Well Square" has had our attention during the past
year. New benches have been placed, trees have been planted and the walks kept free from grass, and the grass mowed.
"Thomas Park" has been looked after, old benches being replaced with new ones, trees planted, the plants and
flowers have been fertilized and watered, the grass mowed
and kept in good condition.
We are glad to see that the Council has given us an
appropriation with which to lay artificial walks in this park,
and we know that when the same are laid that they will
be much appreciated by pedestrians in general. It is un-
\, necessary for us to comment upon how much the laying of
J these walks will add to the beauty of this park.
4|_
: In Dasher Park we were unable to do anything during
the past year, but will now take up its improvement, and
endeavor to make this park attractive.
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Squares East and West of Bull Street and North of Gaston
Street.
We have endeavored to give the squares as much attention during the year as possible, removing such trees
as were necessary, and planting new ones wherever needed.
The grass has been kept mowed, the walks edged and cleaned, all rubbish and paper removed. We have had some
trouble during the year with boys digging up the grass in
some of our squares, but we hope that this depradation will
be overcome in the coming year.
The Strand North of Bay Street and Directly East and
West of the City Hall.
The east plot of ground has been beautified by the placing of artificial stone walks alongside and through it; and
by the planting of the Golden Arbor Vitae along the borders of the walks. We also planted an Amoor River Privit
hedge alongside the iron railing overlooking the bluff, and
in the coming year this railing will be entirely hidden by
the hedge, which will add mtoch to the beauty of this plot.
We also planted many ornamental plants.
The west plot has also been beautified by the laying of
artificial stone walks through it, and the planting of ornamental shrubs. Both of these plots have been planted in
Italian Bye for the winter and present a most beautiful and
artistic appearance, grass with its beautiful shade of green
in contrast to the other shrubbery.
The walls along the slip adjacent to the City Hall have
been planted with English Ivy and Ampelopsis and will
soon cover the unsightly condition of these walls.
The Strand.
We are indeed much pleased and gratified to see that
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Council has seen fit to make an appropriation for the improvement of the Strand from "Whitaker Street to Jefferson
Street, and from Drayton Street to East Broad Street, and
we are quite sure that no money could be more judiciously
spent than in the beautifying of this natural park.
Situated as this park is along our river front, it presents natural advantages that none of our other parks do,
and when the work of beautifying is finished, we can unhesitatingly say that we do not believe there is a more attractive spot in our city than that beautiful stretch of parks
from; Jefferson Street to East Broad Street.
On September 4th, 1906, thei Commission submitted
plans for the beautifying of the Strand from Whitaker
Street to Jefferson Street, and from Drayton Street to Lincoln Street. Council at its meeting of September 12th, '06,
referred this matter to _tb.6 committee of the whole, and
since which time the Commission has received no official
notice as to whether Council adopted the said plans. We
have planted Privit hedges along some of the rails which
border the slips leading down to the river and in the course
of a few years these hedges will completely hide these unsightly rails. We hope that we will be able to complete
this work during the coming year.
Cotton Exchange Circle.
The; circle in front of our Cotton Exchange was again
planted in Short Staple Cotton, and we believe this little
patch of cotton is of as much interest to visitors as any
other sight that our city boasts of, and is much admired
by all who see it.
The Park Extension.
The city has undertaken the improvement of this park
by placing artificial stone walks around and through the
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 193
same: It is absolutely necessary to plow up, harrow, and
grade this park, and when this work is completed it will
present a most pleasing view to the eye. The plowing up
of this park will to a great extent eradicate the cockspur
which is so prevalent there now.
The Commission has planted an avenue of Live Oak
trees around this park, and one along the Bull Street walk,
and the trees are beginning to make a good growth, and
when they have grown sufficiently, the trees which are unsightly and unserviceable will be removed, thereby defining
these avenues.
There is no city in the country that can boast of an
open park containing 21 acres, such as we have in the central and residential section of the city.
Myers and Cann Parks.
In "Myers Park" we have replaced the dead trees, but
other than this nothing has been done towards its improvement.
In "Cann Park" we have done nothing, as this park
has never been laid out and curbed, and until this is done
it is useless to attempt to improve it.
We most earnestly urge Council to have these parks
curbed, in order that they may be clearly defined from the
streets around them, and then the Commission can take up
the matter of their further improvement.
Grass Plots.
In our budget for the year 1907, we asked Council for
an appropriation of Three Thousand Dollars for the improvement of the grass plots throughout our entire city,
and we were much disappointed in not receiving the same,
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as we had hoped that Council would not let another year
slip by without aiding us to grade, plant, and beautify these
plots. It can be readily seen that our streets would bj
much handsomer if the grass plots bordering the same were
improved and kept in good condition, and we trust that
Council will yet see fit to grant us the appropriation for
this purpose.
Estill Park.
In the year 1896 the County Commissioners turned over
to the City of Savannah a tract of land to be converted into
a park, containing 275 acres, and said tract was named Estill Park, and was placed in charge of the Park and Tree
Commission by City ordinance January 29, 1896, giving the
Park and Tree Commission entire jurisdiction over the said
park, and control of all expenditures of money to be made
on the same.
On August 22, 1896, the Park and Tree Commission had
a map prepared by a firm of landscape architects, Messrs.
Olmstead Bros., Boston, Mass. This plan called for the improvement of Estill Park, and had proposed plan been carried out, Savannah would now have a most beautiful suburban driving park, and picnic and playground for children.
The Commission started the improvement of this park.
and was progressing nicely until Council discontinued the
annual appropriation, and according to the agreement between the County Commissioners and the City Council relative to this park, the said park reverted back to the county
in May, 1901.
Had the City Council continued the annual appropriation as agreed, this park would not have reverted back to
the county, but would now be a source of much pleasure
to our own people, and visitors to our city.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 195
I wish to personally state, as Chairman of this Commission, that I worked strenuously and used every effort to
retain as a part of the city park system this magnificent
natural park, and regret exceedingly that we should h'ave
lost the same.
I have waited upon the County Commissioners in person, and I believe that if the city will take immediate steps
to regain this property, that the .County Commissioners will
aid them in reclaiming same.
It does seem a pity that the city should have lost this
beautiful park, and every effort should be, made at once
towards regaining the same, and we trust that Council will
leave no stone unturned until the desired end has been
accomplished.
This park has so many natural advantages. Lakes can
be made without much cost, and, in fact, should an agreement be reached between the County Commissioners and
the City I am sure that the County would aid us in our
work with the convict labor, as the park would not only
be of great benefit to our city, but to the county itself.
Trees.
We have planted during the year trees amounting to
697. The following will show the different varieties and
the number of each:
Live Oak _________________326
Sugarberry ___ 43
Magnolia _____ 55
Sweet Gum _______________ 49
Elm _____________________ 7
Dogwood _________ 38
Palmetto ______..._______101
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Bed Bud __________________ 30
Lagerstromia _ 46
Yaupon 2

It is a source of much satisfaction to the Commission
to know that Council has at last decided to aid them in their
plan of systematic tree planting, and that they have appropriated $3,000.00 for. the planting of Bull and West Broad
Streets with Live Oak trees, and Henry Street from Cemetery Street to the county line, a distance of two miles, with
Sugarberry trees.
"We are glad to know that Savannah is to have that
which she has needed for so many years"a system of tre*
planting." It is indeed needless for us to say that with
the proper expenditure of money each year, devoted to the
systematic tree planting of our streets, that it will only be
a few years before Savannah will have all of her streets
planted in beautiful trees, and she will be entitled more
than ever to her proud title of the "Forest City."
Trimming Trees.
During the year we have done much trimming throughout our entire city, and our trees are now beginning to show
the effect of careful pruning; they are becoming better in
shape, growth, and growing more symmetrical, thereby making much handsomer trees.
*
Removal of Trees.
We have removed during the year 127 dead trees. The
following will show the varieties and number of each:
Water Oak ________________36
Sycamore ______33
Elm _________________21
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Chinaberry _________________19
Mulberry ____________________12
Maple _________________ 4
Bed Bud _________________ 1
Catalpa __________________-- 1
We removed the past year 17 trees which were blown
down by storms, and the following will show variety and
number of each:
Mulberry __________________ 5
Sugarberry _________________ 3
Elm _____________________ 2
Chinaberry _______ 3
Water Oak _________________ 3
Maple ________________ 1
During the year we removed for cause, 20 trees. The
following shows the variety and number of each:
Live Oak __________________12
Sycamore _____________________ 5
Elm ____________________ 2
Sweet Gum __ 1
The total number of trees removed was 164, and the
cost of such removal was borne by our regular appropriation.
Tree Nursery.
The Tree Nursery has been cared for during the past
year, the trees having been plowed, hoed and pruned many
times, but, owing to the decreased flow of water from our
artesian well, we were unable to successfully operate our
ram, and the trees have therefore not had as much water
as was necessary to their proper maintenance, and they have
not made as much growth as they would have done had conditions been better. We are, however, working now upon
108 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
a plan whereby we hope to be able to keep a sufficient supply of water on hand to meet the demand necessary for the
proper watering of our trees; when this work is accomplished we will have little trouble in making our tree nursery a success.
We have in our two nurseries at present 17,000 young
trees, some of which are large enough now for planting, and
we expect to draw trees from our nurseries this year for
planting in our parks, squares and streets.
We have the following varieties in our nurseries: White
Oak, Red Oak, Pin Oak, Scarlet Oak, Chestnut Oak, Sweet
Gum, Sycamore, Basswood, Magnolia Acuminata, Red Bud,
Tulip Poplar, Sugar Maple, Scarlet Maple, Hackberry,
White Dogwood, Yellowwood, American Elm, River Birch,
Sourwood, Holly, Catalpa Kaemferii, Catalpa Speeiosa, Catalpa Teas, Japan, Silver Maple, Red Dogwood, American
Beech, Umbrella Magnolia, Lombardy Poplar, Willow, Live
Oak, Magnolia-Grand-de-Flora, Lagerstromia, Honey Locust,
American Linden, and Bitternut Hickory.
Emmet Park.
In Emmet Park we started a most important and much
needed improvementthe plowing up, grading, harrowing,
fertilizing and planting of the grass plotsand we were
able to complete this work from Lincoln Street to Houston
Street, but lack of funds compelled us to stop before the
work was completed to East Broad Street.
Now that Council has made an appropriation for the
improvement of the Strand, we hope to finish the work in
this park, as the contrast between the beautiful green plots
that we have made and the unsightly, dead-looking ones
adjoining them is very marked, and makes the unimproved
plots appear more unsightly than ever.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 199
"We planted along the street bordering factors walk an
avenue of beautiful and characteristic Live Oak trees, alternating with our stately Palraettoes, and in years to come
this avenue will be in a class entirely to itself.
With the appropriation given us by Council, we laid
artificial stone walks through this park, and same not only
adds much to its appearance, but are of great comfort and
convenience to pedestrians generally.
We regret that we have to report the destruction of
the benches in this park. We placed new benches in this
park and persons through pure mischief, perhaps, not caring for comfort themselves and inconsiderate of the comfort of others, have on several occasions destroyed or mutilated these benches.
There has also been a tendency upon the part of some
of the residents in the vicinity of this park to remove these
benches and place the same in front of or near their homes.
We located said benches several blocks away and had our
workmen bring them back to their former location, and
warned the residents that a future offence of this kind would
be punishable under the city ordinances.
We trust that Council will be able in the very near
future to give us better police protection in our parks and
squares.
Miscellaneous.
We must again 'express our regret that Council did not
see 'fit to grant us an appropriation for new stables, etc.,
and we sincerely hope that the incoming Council will see
its way clear, at an early date, to grant us an appropriation
for this purpose, as we are sadly in need of new buildings,
the present ones being in a very badly decayed and dangerous condition.
200 MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT.
During the latter part of the year we purchased a single horse truck at a cost of $80.00; same has been of great
service to us in our work.
"We also purchased one water wagon tank at a cost of
$35.00, same being very necessary, as one of our old tanks
had given out completely.
It became necessary for us to purchase new mules, as
two of our mules had expended their best .efforts and were
no longer fit for our hard and severe work.
In purchasing these mules we were very particular to
get good, young and sound stock. "We purchased one grey
mare mule, at a cost of $250.00, and one black stud mule,
at a cost of $215.00.
The fact that Council has acceded to the request of the
Park and Tree Commission and placed lights around the
fountain in Forsyth Park, is a source of much pleasure to
the Commission, visitors to our city, and to the public at
large.
"We trust that Council will see its way clear to place
more lights in this park, thereby insuring greater safety
and protection to its frequenters.
Laurel Grove Cemetery.
We have erected a barbed wire division fence between
the white and colored portions of Laurel Grove Cemetery,
thereby breaking the connection between the two, and making each one distinctive.
"We planted Ked Bud and Dogwood trees around tbr
circle; these trees being planted alternately, will present
a most beautiful aspect, with the red flowers of the Ked
Bad and the white flowers of the Dogwood, in contrast to
each other.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 201
In the greenhouse we have placed up-to-date sash-raising apparatus, which will make the greenhouse complete in
every respect, and much easier to handle,
"We purchased a horse lawn mower to facilitate the
mowing of the grass in the cemetery.
We desire to bring Council's attention to the fact that
immediate steps should be taken towards filling in the low
land in rear of the cemetery, in order that it might be available for lots.
"We beg to also bring to Council's attention the condition of the iron pipe fence, on Cemetery Street, from the
rear of the keeper's residence to the city stables. This
fence is in a very dilapidated condition; the posts have
rusted off, as have many of the joints.
"We therefore beg to recommend that the iron fence be
removed and that a good substantial barbed wire fence be
placed in its stead, and that the hedge of Osage Orange be
also removed and substituted with the Amoor River Privit.
The main avenue in the cemetery has been badly washed
by heavy rains and is in need of resurfacing. We would
therefore recommend that Council take some steps to have
this roadway rebuilt at an early date, as the longer the work
is delayed, the more work it will require to put it in proper
condition.
The walks in the circle are badly in need of resurfacing
and we will endeavor to give them our attention in the very
near future.
During the past summer the circle and the borders of
the roadways were kept in good condition, and made attractive by the planting of many beautiful flower beds and
ornamental plants.
The past fall the grass plots were planted in Italian
202 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Rye, and present a very beautiful appearance, the grass
being green and making one believe that it is springtime
now, and not winter.
I wish to state that the present keeper, Mr. Robert H.
Clements, has given entire satisfaction. He has attended
to his duties and kept the cemetery in better condition than
it has ever been since the Park-and Tree Commission has
had control of it.
He is by far the best keeper that we have had yet,
being conscientious and honest in the discharge of the duties which have been imposed upon him.
In regard to the Mary E. Williams Lot No. 566, we beg
to state that according to the instructions of Council, we
had this lot put in proper condition at a cost of $40.80, and
that we have provided for its proper care and maintenance
at the cost of $15.00 per annum, the work being performed
by Mr. William Hall, florist.
We desire to bring Council's attention to the fact that
the fees collected from Laurel Grove Cemetery amounted
to $3,312.50 for the year 1906, and the city therefore expended only $3,187.50 for the care, maintenance and improvement of the cemetery.
Laurel Grove CemeteryColored Portion.
The work in this cemetery has progressed in a satisfactory manner, and the cemetery has been kept clean and
in good condition.
I attach to this report the mortuary statistics of the
keeper of the cemetery.
Tours respectfully,
P. D. BAFFIN,
Chairman.
MAYOR'S ANNUM, REPORT. 208
Mortuary Report of Laurel Grove Cemetery for 1906.
January .. -..._
March __. -...
April --__--._-_
May _______
June
July _______
August ..........
September __ ____
October ----__-..
November -.-...-
Grand Total..
WHITE.
*? ' 5
3
(Pjai
Q
26
13
26,
25
23
23
29
28
22
28
41
26
812
Stillborn and
Premature Births
2
3
5
8
2
4
5
4
4
6
8
2
48
o>
I
l!
4
7
5
4
6
8
7
8
8
7
2
5
61
00 *3
i

1
2
3
5
5
2
4
3
5
8
7
4
1
44
1. fr<
80
20
81
29
81
26
86
86
25
85
48
31
373
COLORED.

o
a
to1
Q
68
67
69
68
55
,62
63
66
80
83
100
101
Stillborn and
Premature Births
6
9
9
1
5
8
12
13
12
14
22
13
882 Ill9
1C
1
*
11
4
5
2
2
2
8
5
6
2
7
2
5
45
j
1E-i
72
72
71
70
57
65
68
72
82
90
102
106
927
Total Interments in
Both Cemeteries.
102
92
102
99
88
91
104
108
107
125
145
137
1300
Burial and removal fees (white)_____"______$1,802
Sale of Lots from Jan., 1906, to Jan., 1907 (white)_ 1,142
Sale of Lots from Jan., 1906, to Jan., 1907 (colored).- 283
Grand Total_______________________$3,227
Respectfully,
ROBERT H. CLEMENTS,
Keeper.
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REPORT OF THE CLERK OF MARKET.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 19th, 1907.
HON. HERMAN MYEBS, Mayor,
DEAR SIRI herewith submit my report as Clerk of
the Market for the year 1906.
Butchers _________________$ 4,680 00
Fish Stalls _________________ 2,000 00
Poultry ____________________ 682 00
Vegetable Stalls _____________ 700 00
Bakers ___________________ 233 00
Crabs, Shrimp, Etc_____________ 180 00
Basement Vaults ______________ 332 00
Miscellaneous ________________ 208 00
Country Carts and Outside Stands______ 1,353 10
Total___________________$10,368 10
This report shows almost the exact amount collected
last year. This department had the pleasure of haying a
new concrete pavement put down on the Butchers' side
of the Market, which was the only extra expense incurred.
The relations between this department and its patrons and
the public have been ^ery pleasant. The quality of meats
sold in the Market during the past year have been very
good. The Chairman of the Committee on Market, Mr. J.
F. Canty, has bpen very kind and renderel valuable services whenever needed.
*
Respectfully,
ALEX. MENDEL,
Clerk of Market.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 205
HAEBOR MASTER'S REPORT.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 19th, 1907.
HON. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor,
DEAR SIRI have the honor to hand you herewith my
annual report for the year 1906. There has been an increase in the revenue of my office for this year over all
preceding years. The number of steam vessels has shown
a large increase. The following table will show the monthly
receipts:
January __$ 495 12
February ____________________ 394 00
March _____________________ 318 00
April _____________________ 326 00
May ______________________ 422 50
June ______________________ 362 00
July ______________________ 387 00
August _____________________ 464 00
September ________ 516 00
October ____________________ 697 00
November _ 625 59
December __________________ 504 00
Total____________________$5,511 21
Respectfully submitted,
JAS. McBRIDE, -
Harbor Master.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
EEPOET OF THE CITY ATTORNEY.
Savannah, Ga., January 1, 1907.
Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor.
SirI have the honor to submit to you herewith my
report as to the operations of th# Law Department for
the year 1906:
I.
Maud L. Zipperer vs. The Mayor and Alderman of the
City of Savannah was an action filed in the Superior Court
on November 14, 1905. It was tried on the 27th of April,
1906, resulting in a verdict and judgment for the defendant. This suit was brought by Mrs. Zipperer as widow
of an alleged City policeman, to recover $410.00 claimed to
be due her by the defendant for funeral expanses and six
months salary of her husband. Motion for new trial was
duly made by the plaintiff, which was argued in June, 1906,
and refused, and bill of exceptions was filed to the Supreme Court, where the case is now pending.
n.
Jackson S. Kaufman vs. the City was a suit brought in
the Superior Court, filed on November 14, 1905, and in
which he seeks to recover from the city for what he claims
to be his one-half of the land embraced in Thirty-eighth
Street, between Bull and "Whitaker Streets, claiming that
the value of his said aUeged land is $3,000.00. The pleadings in said case have all been perfected, and it has been set
for trial two or three timps, but not yet disposed of. I do
not think that he is entitled to recover anything on the
merits, and, besides, I believe that a plea fil/ed to the effect
that he is barred by the statutes of limitations, will prevail.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 207
m.
J. J. Methvin vs. the City, was a suit filed for $10,200.-
00, in the Superior Court, on November 14, 1905. This case
was tried on July 25, 1906, resulting in a verdict for plaintiff for $500.00. I moved for a new trial, and the same was
duly argued and submitted to the Court, which has not yet
rendered its decision.
IV.
John Cresswell vs. the City, was a suit filed for damages amounting to $500.00 for personal injuries sustained by
.the plaintiff falling from the sidewalk at the corner of
Huntingdon and West Broad Streets, the plaintiff alleging
that the sidewalk was improperly constructed in being too
high, and that, by reason of the negligence of the city he
was injured. This ease was tried on January 26, 1906, resulting in a verdict and judgment for the defendant.
Motion for new trial was filed in February, 1906, and on
March this application for new trial was dismissed by the
plaintiff.
V.
Elizabeth MePike vs. the City was a suit filed on November 11, 1905, in the Superior Court, claiming $1123.00
damages to her property just east of the subway on Gwinnett Street. It was tried on May 18, 1906, resulting in a
verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $350.00, and
under my advice, the same has been paid.
VI.
The claim of The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah vs. H. F. Lubs and H. F. Kuck, sureties on the
bond of Henry Garwes, Keeper of Laurel Grove Cemetery,
208 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
was in my hands, and after repeated attempts at settlement, the claim amounting to $804.50, I notified the defendants that suit would be brought to the February Term.
1907, of the City Court/and it will be filed on or before the
return day, during this month.
VII.
The Certiorari case of Sam Dayes against the City,
being from the Recorder's Court, was filed January 10,
1906, in the Superior Court. On April 21, 1906, I moved
to dismiss the same for want of proper notice and service
on defendant, at petitioner's cost, and the Court granted an
order of dismissal.
vin.
The Certiorari case of Sam Fraser against the City, from
the Recorder's Court, was filed in the Superior Court of
Chatham County on January 10, 1906. On April 21, 1906,
I moved to dismiss the same for want of proper notice and
service on defendant, at petitioner's cost, and order was
granted accordingly.
IX.
The condemnation proceeding of The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah against Elizabeth H. Skinner
was begun on May 21, 1906. by the giving of proper notice
under the Code, with service upon Mrs. Skinner. On June
4th the Assessors met on the property, and I attended their
meeting there, as well as their subsequent meetings until
the hearing was complete, and took part on behalf of the
City. The finding of the Assessors was that the City pay
Mrs. Skinner $800.00 for the land taken in the opening of
Thirty-fifth Street, being a part of Lot No. 35 Brady Subdivision, Eatill "Ward. On June 9, 1906, this finding and
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 209
the condemnation papers were filed by me in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court, and the matter has since been
closed up by the proper payments.
X.
A. R. Stewart vs. Savannah Contracting Co., and The
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, (3t al. in the
United States Circuit Court was a suit filed in September,
1906, to the October rules. This suit is brought by Stewart
as sub-contractor on the City Hall, claiming a certain sum
of money to be due him for work and labor donp and material furnished. I entered my appearance in the suit at
the October rules, and filed demurrers, general and special,
at the November rules, 1906, which have not yet been
argued, but will no doubt be heard when the United States
Court meets in'Savannah during next month.
XI.
The condemnation proceeding of The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah vs. Fannie M. Green was begun
December 3, 1906, by giving the proper notice under the
Code and serving the same. During December,, 1906, the
Assessors met and awarded $1600.00 for the whole lot,
to-wit, Lot 37, Section 17, Law Ward, for the opening of
Burroughs and Thirty-fifth Streets. I have filed the
papers in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court, and no
action having been taken by Fannie M. Green, the award
has become final.
xn.
In addition to the foregoing, a number of matters have
been settled or disposed of without litigation, but it is not
pecessary to detail the same here.
210 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
I have investigated the titl<3s and drawn deeds to
lands sold to the City for the extension and opening of
streets and for parks, and also for lands sold by the City,
and all other necessary contracts and conveyances, and
beg to i^efer to said documents filed in the Clerk of Council's office, as well as to the proceedings of Council wherein the same are set out, without enumerating them herein.
xrv.
I have attended the meetings of Council and of committees when summoned, have drawn all such ordinances
and resolutions, reports and other legal documents as
were necessary to be drawn from time to time; have attended to the regular daily business of the. office, including
the giving of opinions and advice to the Mayor, the Aldermen, heads of departments and officials generally.
With renewed assurances of high respect, I remain,
Sir, Tour obedient servant,
WILLIAM GAEEARD,
City Attorney.
REPORTS
OF
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
OF THE
CITY OF SAVANNAH
212 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
EEPOET OF HOSPITALS.
St. Joseph's Hospital
^SAVANNAH, GA., January 1st, 1907.
HON. HERMAN MTEES, Mayor.
SIBI beg to submit herewith the annual report of
St. Joseph's Hospital for the year 1906.
Beport of city and county patients treated, nursed,
fed. supplied with medicines, stimulants, operation outfits,
surgical dressings, bedding, laundry, etc., from January
1st to December 31st, 1906.
Summary of reports submitted 'each month to the
Health Officer.
MONTHS
January ..__ ... _
February _ __
March ___ _ ____
April ..... _....._ _
May _ -._.________
June __. _
July _ ... _____ _
August
September __ ......
October _ __ ___
November . ______
December _ . ___ __
Total __ .. .....
Treated
47
44
48
88
85
84
41
86
47
87
27
81
460
j
25
19
24
22
20
19
25
19
81
26
11
17
258
*
5
8
0
2
1
2
1
1
0
1
0
1
17
Remaining
. 17 on Jan. 81st
22 on Feb. 28th
19 on Mar. 81st
14 on Apr. 80th
14 on May 80th
18 on June 80th
15 on July 81st
16 on AUK 81st
16 on Sept. 80th
10 on Oct. 81st
16 on Nov. BOtb
18 on Dec. 81st
185
Days of
Illness
705
705
595
546
575
427
554
497
622
464
411
475
6,576
Average Days
15
16
18 f
14 i
16*
12 i
18 i
18*
18 |
12 f
15
15 J
14 5-12
Cost per Capita per Diem .
Appropriations
City
85 i cts,
85 i
42
454-5
4825
58 i
45
60
401-5
58 J
60}
52}
47 cts.
County
28 i Cts.
28 i
28
802-5
284-5
89
80
88 J
268-5
85 i
40|
85
81 lets.
Combined
59 Cts.
59
70
761-5
721-5
97 *
75
88 i
664-5
89|
S10H
87 |
78t cts.
B
3
ffi
o
8
Average cost per capita, per annum to City__-$ 6.52
Average cost per capita, per annum to County____.__. .._ 4.34%
Average cost per capita, per annum combined 10.86%
*Moribund on admission, 5
Respectfully submitted,
SIOTBB M. DOMINICA, Superintendent. toH*
CO
214 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Charity Hospital.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 16, 1907.
Hox. HERMAN MYERS, Mayor.
SIRFollowing Is the report of Charity Hospital for
year ending Dee. 31, 1906:
Charily Patients.
Total number of males___________________ 59
Total number of females__________________ 31
Total number of patients__________________ 90
Total number of days____________________1,388
Total number of medical cases_____________._ 68
Total number of surgical cases_____________ 18
Total number discharged, cured or benefited______ 73
Total number of deaths___________________ 9
Total number of births___________________ 4
Total number in hospital Dee. 31, 1906__________ 8
Receipts.
Appropriation from City______$ 900 00
Appropriation from County_______ 300 00
From pay Patients____________ 291 88
From Churches, Societies etc_____ 31 01
From individuals____________ 9 00
Total __________________$1531 89
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1906___ 371 44$1,903 33
Expenditures.
Salaries __-_______________$ 224 50
Groceries __________________ 309 25
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 215
ExpendituresContinued.
Fuel.___________________ 79 15
Medicines and surgical supplies____ 188 25
Meats, vegetables, milk, etc____ 268 43
Burial of paupers _____________ 18 00
Repairs and improvementa!_______- 708 70
Insurance _______________ 22 50
Telephone ________________ 25 50-41,844 28
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1907___ $59 05
Respectfully submitted,
F. S. BELCHER, M. D.
Secretary.
216 MAYOR'S ANNUAL. REPORT.
Park View Sanitarium.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 1st, 1907.
HON. HEEMAN MYEBS,- Mayor.
SmThe Directors of the Park View Sanitarium, Savannah, Ga., have the honor to submit the following annual
report, for the year ending December 31st, 1906, to the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, Ga. The
report includes full attention to all patients; lodging, diet,
nursing, medicine, operations, care of obstetrical cases,
surgical appliances, ejtc.
MONTHS
January ........
March . ___ .
April __ . _ ...
May ___ .. _
July ... .-
August _ ......_
September _____
October __.._.__
November ______
December ...
Total __ .
Days Hospital
?46
314
874
?.5
802
R81
188
803
885
852
296
822
8583
Admitted Males
14
1ft
16
10
13
16
16
15
18
18
9
13
1ft
Admitted Females
11
10
16
8
10
13
10
21
14
191
16
10
151
Remaining
9
11
7
5
12
191
10
11
13
10
7
9
116
00
3
1
1
9,
?,
1
9i
1
10
00
A

1
1
1
1
fi
Cans- of Death
( Chronic Diarrhoea.
( Entero Colitis.
Carcenoiua of Rectum.
Chronic Nephritis.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Puerperal Eclampsia.
Total number of patients, 320; cost to the City of
Savannah, $9.375 per capita,
Tb,e above report records only patients who are residents of the City of Savannah, Ga.
Respectfully submitted,
RALSTON LATTIMOBE, M. D.
Secretary.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 217
Savannah Hospital
Savannah, Ga., January 5, 1907.
Annual report of Charity patients in Savannah Hospital
for the year 1906.
Number of patients in Hospital Jan. 1,1906______ 9
" " " " " during the year____ 464
" " " admitted during the year___ 305
" " *' discharged during the year.__ 293
" " " died during the year______ 32
" " " died within 24 hrs. of admittance 9
" " " born during the year______ 12
" " Hospital days______________5152
Average daily___. ___________________________.._ 14.131
Mortality ________________________ .069
Average cost per patient______________$ 10.707
Causes of Death.
1 Morphinomania and Phthisis.
2 Pneumonia.
1 Senile gangrene.
2 Premature birth.
4 Phthisis. .
1 Acute alcoholism and Opium poison.
3 Heart disease.
1 Alcoholism and Senility.
1 Senile dementia.
1 Suppression of urine.
1 Congenital syphilis and Malnutrition.
1 Acute gastritis and Heart disease.
218 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Causes of Death.Continued.
1 Peritonitis.
1 Uraemia
1 Typhoid fever.
2 Congestive meningitis and Hypostatic congestion of lungs.
1 Burns.
1 Tubercular meningitis.
1 Ruptured spleen.
1 Carcinoma of liver.
1 Malarial fever.
1 Intestinal obstruction and peritonitis.
1 Dysentery and Heart disease.
1 Malnutrition and Convulsions.
Eespectfully submitted,
THOMAS J. CHAKLTON, M. D.,
Superintendent.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 218
Report of the Georgia Infirmary for year 1906.
Number Patients in Infirmary Jan. 1, 1906. _ 31
admitted during 1906______ 652
cared for in 1906__________ 683
" " discharged during 1906_1____ 530
" " died during 1906__________ 118
" " remaining Jan. 1, 1907____ 35
Largest number patients in Infirmary at one time. 44
Smallest number patients in Infirmary at one time 22
Number of births_____________ 8
Number brought to Infirmary in dying condition 56
Mortality ________________________ 17.27%
Mortality exclusive of brought in Infirmary in
dying condition ____-_________-_ 9.89%
Number of Attendants including nurses and help_ 20
Total number days charity patients________ 10JL10
Total number days pay patients___________ 1,952
Total number days all patients_________ 12,062
Daily average number patients during year___- 33.05
Expenses for year_________________$10,181.55
Average cost of patient per diem_______ 84.44
Appropriation from City and County would average per charity patient per diem_______ 74.18
Receipts.
From City _______________$ 4,500 00
From County _____________ 3,000 00
From Pay Patient __________ 1,464 41
From Interest _____________ 660 73
Dividend Eeppard Iron Co.______ 80 00
Donation, from Indep't Presby. Chr. 38 18
Donation from Porter Aid Society. 280 00
Donation from Sav. Benevolent Asso. 200 00
Donation _________________ 35$10,223 67
220 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Expenses.
Salaries ________________$ 4^88 07
Provisions ________________ 8,107 67
Household Supplies __________ 562 32
Drugs and Surgical Supplies__., 1,145 01
Undertakers Account ________ 195 00
Coal and Wood ___________ 419 50
Repairs Plumbing and Painting___ 216 74
Interest ________________ 176 09
Telephones ______________ 36 00
Insurance _______________ 22 80
Advertising and Printing______ 3 80
Electric Light and Gas________ 158 .12$10,181 55
Deficit January 1, 1906________$ 1,557 63
reduced __________ 42 12
" January 1, 1907______ $ 1,515 51
Respectfully submitted,
CHAS. M. GILBERT,
President.
Savannah, February 28,1907.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 221
REPORT* OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 18, 1907.
HON. HERMAN MYBRS, Mayor.
SIBI have the honor to transmit herewith the fourth
annual report of the Board of Managers of the Free Public
Library of the City of Savannah.
Tours very truly,
GBO. J. BALDWIN,
Chairman.
SAVANNAH, GA., January 17, 1907.
To the Honorable Mayor and Aldermen, of the City of
Savannah, And to the Georgia Historical Society.
GentlemenThe agreement between the City of Savannah and the Georgia Historical Society entered into on
March 26, 1903, stipulates thalt reports shall be made annually by the Board of Managers of the Public Library to
the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah and to
the Georgia Historical Society, showing all the actings and
doings of said Board, the manner in which tthe monies
handled by it shall have been expended, what books may
have been added to the Library, what interest the white
people of Savannah have taken in the same, and all other
matters and things which may be considered of importance
to the contracting parties as well as to the people of Savannah.
In accordance with these stipulations, the Board of
Managers of the Public Library now submits its fourth
222 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
ft
annual report showing its proceedings during the year ending December 31, 1906. The reports of its Librarian and
Treasurer are also attached as additional information.
The membership of the Board during the year has
been as follows:
Term Ficnire* Appointed by Apointed by the Georierm expires city of Savannah: gia Historical Society:
December 31, 1906"W. C. Travis, Otis Ashmore
December 31, 1907A. A. Lawrence R. J. Nunn,
December 31, 1908Thos. Gamble, Jr. A. E. Lawton,
Decemebr 31. 1909H. W. Witcover, H. C. Cunningham,
December 31, 1910John M. Thomas, George J. Baldwin.
There have been no changes in the Board of Managers
during the year. The terms of office of Messrs. John M.
Thomas and George J. Baldwin having expired December
31, 1905, they were each re-appointed to serve during the
ensuing five years.
The Board of Managers elected the following officers
to serve during the year:
George J. Baldwin, Chairman.
A. A. Lawrence, Vice-Chairman.
Thos Gamble, Jr., Secretary.
John M. Thomas, Treasurer.
The Chairmanships of the standing committees of the
Board of Managers were as follows:
Special Library Committee, Mr. Otis Ashmore.
Financing and Auditing, Mr. W. C. Travis.
The by-laws and rules governing the library have
been slightly changed in minor particulars by requiring the
Librarian to be present at each meeting of the Board, permitting strangers visiting the city to use the Library without charge, and providing a method for a quicker purchasing of books immediately needed for any reason.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 233
' The insurance upon the building and its contents remains unchanged, the former being insured for $10,000,
and the latter for $15,000, these being the amount decided
upon as satisfactory by both th,e Board of Managers and
the Georgia Historical Society.
The interest of the citizens of Savannah in the
Library has increased considerably, although the total
number of volumes taken out shows a slight decrease from
the year 1905. This decrease is accounted for by the
Librarian in his report which is attached hereto. The
larger use of books during the last five months, however,
has been most gratifying as compared with the previous
year. The greater number of readers is shown by the fact
thafc 1292 additional cards have been giv,en out, of which
337 were to children under 14 years of age. Cards are now
issued to 7433 persons privileged to use the Library, and
during the yar there were 89,783 visits by the public to
its rooms, to whom were given out 65,821 books.
It is particularly gratifying !to note a very marked increase in the reading of books upon philosophy, religion,
sociology, useful arts, fine arts, and literature. "We believe that this is due to an awakening interest of the public in Savannah in these subjects, which has been very
considerably stimulated by the creation of the free Public
Libraiy. It is noteworthly that the only material decrease
in reading has been in fiction, although there is a slighft decrease in books of history and natural science. The Library
has given special attention to those subjects for which there
has been the mlost demand and will during the coming year
increase its supply of books on natural science anl history.
The records show an increasing interest in, and use of,
the Library by children under 14 years of age, which should
be carefully fostered and encouraged.
Consideration has been given to a plan of co-operation
with the public school authorities looking toward the
224 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
establishment of reading rooms for use at night at the different school houses, but the plan has not proved feasible
under existing circumstances.
Attention has been given to various forms of co-operation between the public libararies and school systems of
such cities as Worcester, Detroit, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and
others, and the Board hopes at an early date to be financially
able to adopt for our city school a plan similar to that of the
traveling libraries used by the County schools, a system
which has proven most satisfactory in many cities.
A number of carefully selected sets of books of from
one to two hundred volumes each should be arranged and
packed in cases properly designed both for transportation
and display of the contents; one of these cases could ba sent
to each school, placed in charge of its superintendent and
distributed among the pupils, the sets being changed from
one school to another at fixed periods.
In this way, teachers could select books best suited for
the special tastes and needs of their different classes and
of much value to supplement the school work, and while
interesting the children, at the same time guide their taste
toward the best literature.
The compilaion of a complete modern card catalog is
progressing satisfactorily and it is expected by the end of
this year will be completed. This catalog will undoubtedly
very greatly increase the use of the Library by those who
wish to use for reference and study.
The following departments have been completely catalogued: Philosophy, Beligion, Sociology, Philology, Natural Science, Useful Arts, Fine Arts, and Literature, leaving
only History and Biography upon which the librarians are
now working.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 225
Fiction is catalogued only by authors and names of
books, no subject index being made.
No library can be properly used until it is exhaustively
catalogued and indexed. A proper and modern card catalog enables anyone at a glance to find all of the works of
any particular author, to find any book by its title, to
secure a complete bibliography of all books on any special
topic, and in general answers almost any question which
can be asked concerning the books in the Library, their eontents, or their authors.
We have been able to purchase the largest number of
new books bought in any year during the history of the
Free Public Library, having bought 1166 volumes, which
added to 223 secured by gifts and exchange with the Georgia Historical Society, and the 490 rented from the Booklover's Library, shows 1879 accessions. It is expected that
the coming year will produce even better results in this line,
on account of the increased funds placed at our disposal.
The Board of Managers has kept in constant touch with
different organizations in the city for the purpose of securing lists of books which would be interesting to their members. The proceedings of the Woman's Club of Savannah
have been of such a nature as to very greatly increase the
interest of Savannah wome,n in the Public Library and, in
consequence, many especially interesting books have been
purchased, among them a complete set of the works of Mr.
Edward Howard Griggs, he having lectured here during the
year. All the writings of Mr. George E. Vincent, who will
lecture, here during 1907, have also been ordered together
with an additional list of books recommended by him for
preliminary reading for those preparing to attend his
lectures. The purchase of other such lists is being considered, and we invite suggestions from any citizen along
this line.
226 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Library could be made of more value with an enlarged co-operation by the public and with the suggestions
and assistance of the many local Associations, Societies,
Fraternal and Historical Organizations, Labor Unions, Commercial bodies, and others, the benefits of the Library could
be vastly extended and a strong public demand for several
hundred thousand books per annum be created and supplied.
For instance, books especially suited to the needs of the
various labor trades organizations could be purchased, or
professional organizations could entrust their present
libraries to our care, which could then be enlarged and made
of more general value.
We invite the members of all organizations to personally visit and inspect the excellent reading room provided, to
see for themselves the opportunities they are now overlooking. and then to confer with the Librarian for the purpose
of suggesting methods by which the Library can be made of
more service to their members.
The utmost attention has been given to different
methods of informing the public of new books added and of
anything which may seem of interest. During the year
1906, seven specially and carefully prepared articles have
appeared in the city newspapers calling attention to books
in the Library which treated of current events most interesting at the time, such as Washington's Birthday on
February 22nd, Earthquakes at the time of the San Francisco disaster, and Browning's poetry just prior to the
Griggs lectures.
In addition to these, eighteen other lists of books purchased have been published, and the work of the Library
has been set before the public in this manner no less than
fifty-seven times during the year. Both of our city newspapers have been of great service in this matter.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 227
It is intended during the coming year to use other
methods of publicity in addition to continuing those used
in the past.
During the year, a statement was secured from a
typical selection of American cities giving the total income,
number of borrowers, and other statistics concerning each
of their public libraries.
CITIES
Harford, Conn.. .
Jacksonville, Fla .....
Atlanta, Ga,.- ...... ...
Louisville, Ky. ........
St. Joseph, Mo. .......
New Bedford, Mass....
Charlotte. N C. ......
Gal vest on, Texas
El Paso, Texas.... ..
Norfolk, Va...... ....
Savannah, Ga. ........
gfl &-2
79,850
28,429
89,872
204,781
102.979
62.442
18,091
87,789
15.906
46,624
54,244
-1
11o,q
R<O oj "S,
0 oj
a o
116,824 94 .20
* 7,000 00 25
16,000 00 . 18,
61,000 00 -25
16,500 00 ..._16
18,800 00' .29
2,500 00 .14
f 16,000 00 .42
5,750 00 .86
5,606 04 .12
4,038 00 .07
*. ig
i?a 2 *
&*
7,535
6136
15,111
20,796
8,700
11,000
3,647
5.500
8,500
7.689
6,141
03
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21
6
18
45
10
17
4
13
4
9
3
^
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18,479 01
8600 00
7,470 00
24,529 16
8.514 00
10,650 00
1,500 00
9,800 00
2,940 00
2.85000
1,776 45
+ Or more. $11,000 gift 1904-OB.
It will be noticed from this list that Savannah stands at
the foot in the amount of public money per capita which is
used for the support of its public library but we hope will
not long remain so.
Eecognizing this, the City of Savannah has increased
the appropriation for the Public Library from $3,500 in
1906 to $4,200 in 1907. The gratifying increase will be used
almost entirely for the purchase of new books, for the re-
" placement of those worn out, and for a moderate increase
in the salaries of our underpaid Librarians. New books
must be purchased and old books cared for, not only to -provide for the growth of the Library, and therefore of tke interest of the public, but to make good the books used up
228 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
and worn out. Every time a book leaves the Library, it
comes back nearer to the end of its usefulness.
It is a fact to be regretted that beyond a few small
donations, none of our wealthier citizens have so far been
willing to give to an institution of so much benefit to Savannah. Any amount of money can be profitably used and it is
hoped that some of our people during the coming year will
either personally make considerable donations for the enlargement of the work, or leave such bequests by will.
Specific instructions for the use of such funds can usually
be adhered to.
The Treasurer's Report shows that in consequence of
a definite annual budget made up at the beginning of each
year, which is strictly adhered to. the expenses of the
Public Library are in exact accord with its income. It
expends every dollar it can possibly secure but winds up
the year with a sufficient cash balance to cover the bills
included in that year and carries over from one year to
another no indebtedness.
The accounts, as shown in the Treasurer's Report attached, have been properly audited and examined by the
Finance Committee and signed by its Chairman.
The great interest of the Board of Managers during
the year has been shown by the constant attendance of
the members at meetings of both the Board and its Committees. The members of the Special Committee on the
Library visited the building no less than 714 times during
the year.
The very considerable amount of work undertaken is
because of the pride your apointees feel in performing the"
duties which they believe are of so great service to the
people of this city. They ask no compensation beyond the
knowledge of the fact that they have been of service to
their fellow citizens.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 229
The three full years of trial of the Public Library,
provided for by thp agreement between the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Savannah and the Georgia Historical Society, having now passed and its advisability confirmed by the appropriations for 1907, the Free Public
Library of the City of Savannah may now'be recognized
as an accomplished and permanent foundation.
This fourth annual report is respectfully submitted by
order of the Board of Managers.
Very respectfully,
GEORGE J. BALDWIN,
Chairman, Board of Managers of the Public Library.
230 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
LXBBABIAN'S REPORT.
Savannah, Ga., January 1, 1907.
To the Board of Managers of the Savannah Public Library:
In presenting the Librarian's report for the fourth
year in our history, it gives me pleasure to say that the
progress made has been generally satisfactory; but in two
respects the showing is not quite as .encouraging as that of
the preceding year. These are the lack of increase in the
number of visitors and the number of books taken out; but
the cause of the trouble is not far to seek, and was entirely
unavoidable. The completion of the artificial stone pavement in th,e Forsyth Park Extension and other parts of the
City, of 1905, proved so attractive to the young people for
skating purposes by the use of roller skates as to amount
almost to a craze; and to such an extent did it progress that
for several months at the close of that year and the beginning of 1906 the Library was almost deserted by a large
number of that class of visitors and readers. It caused a
falling off in attendance and book borrowing to such an
extent that when the excitement subsided the marked increase in interest in the Library for the last five months of
this year did not entirely offset the loss made in the first
seven months. The showing, then, for the year 1906 is a
trifle behind that of 1905 in those two respects.
In addition to the 6,141 Cards issued to borrowers as
recorded in last year's report 1,292 have been given out,
making the number at this time 7,433. Of these 337 were
given to children under 14 years of age.
Excellent work has been done on the card catalogue,
and it is expected that the end of this year will find it completed. In this connection your Librarian cannot too
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 231
heartily repeat what he has said in his former reports respecting the good work and valuable services of his assistants, Miss Maude Heyward and Miss Elizabeth V. McLaws.
As a result of the increase in the appropriation by the
City a larger number of books has been purchased, amounting to 1,166 volumes. These, with 223 added in the way
of gifts and exchanges to the Georgia Historical Society,
and 490 rented from the Booklovers' Library, all accessible
to the public, make the handsome total of 1,879 accessions.
It is a fact which admits of no doubt that in giving to
the public all that it demands of a public library the good
work of the institution is thereby .enlarged. The small
addition to the City's appropriation last year was very
helpful in supplying reading matter which, without that increase, could not have been acquired. The promise of a further increase for the coming year assures us of still better
service with less complaint, and inspires us with the hope
that in due time our need of more adequate support will be
realized and that the Library will be the recipient of the
full amount neeesary to provide for our Citizens all the
wholesome literature required by a city as large as Savannah. Careful inquiry has proved the truth of the statement that we have been serving our people to the best of
our ability on just about one-half the amount of money
usually appropriated to cities the size of Savannah for
Library purposes.
In counting up the good results accomplished during
the year th providing of works on special topics for the
use of the various literary bodies, such as the Woman's
Club, etc., should not be overlooked. This work can be
more thoroughly effected with the assured enlargement of
our income; and it is hoped also that during the coming
232 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
year -we may be able to give more attention to the needs
of the children's department than we have heretofore done.
It is gratifying to note, in conclusion, that our reference
department is steadily growing in popularity.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) WILLIAM HARDEN,
Librarian.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 233
Cards Issued, Visits, Fines and Reserves.
MONTHS
March .......
April . ..............
May .. ..... ..:...
June ................
Julv ........
August ...... ........
September. ..........
October . . . . . . .
December ....... ...
Totals.........
Previously Issued . . .
Total..... ....
Cards
Issued
152
108
125
74
91
87
135
125
121
92
104
78
1,292
6,141
7,433
Monthly
Visits Public
7,195
6.773
7,732
7,406
7,892
7,198
8,383
7,349
7.827
7493
7,573
6,962
89,783
Monthly
Visits Libr'ry
Committee
59
64
65
64
78
69
80
68
62
39
9
57
714
Fines and Reserves
t.4& 4S
47 98
51 40
52 30
65 34
62 03
56 42
48 22
51 80
59 68
67 84
64 18
$665 17
1
Cards Issued During the Year to Children Under Fourteen
Years of Age Included in General Total.
MONTHS
January........ ......
March .................
April ..................
May.. ... .............
June ................
July........... .......
August.... .. ....-..-
September .... . . October ...-.-......-..
December .-'-.. .... ....
Total ...........
1905
124
116
72
64
51
45
49
32
22
21
28
16
640
1906
52
22
82
24
25
23
57
35
17
10
24
16
837
Total
176
138
104
88
76
68
106
67
39
31
52
32
977
234 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Books Taken From the Library.
MONTHS
Jann ;rv ...........
February.. .......
March. --------
April .- MacJane .......... ... .
July.- .....
September. .... ....
October . .... ....
November. ... ....
Totals 1906-.. .
Totals 1905..-.. -
Totals 1904 _... ...
A f/*ACtflitf*}T)it
Books temporarily
rented __
Books acquired by
Georgia HistorlAol Sl/vMpt'V
Total new bocks
added to Library
during the vear.
1Qeneral
1
2
2
1
2
8
8
-
19
IPhilosophy
16
29
31
30
88
80
86
42
45
26
84
22
379
156
22
28
1Religion [Sociology
19 26
32 25
18 39
26! 30
25 38
14 29
27; 44
15 62
16 36
10' 89
21 50
13 36
236
122
40
11
454
294
42
50'
IPhilology
3
3
~6
2
1
1
5
2
"l
2
26
13
3
13
Natural Science
26
35
27
21
30
22
25
28
34
16
22
16
302
379
62
36
11
16
17
22
18
14
21
12
11
17
15
14
0
1Fine Arts
23
16
19
17
21
18
26
16
11
18
19
19
185223
162189
24 36
31 28
Literature
213
188
195
176
180
157
148
117
133
155
194
147
1.998
1,170
225
58
K
282
311
299
240
263
185
197
197
204
195
224
190
2,787
3,424
1,048
85
Fiction
4,951
4807
5,351
4,696
4.998
4,760
5,568
5,088
5.089
4.764
4,681
4,470
59223
60,882
16384
807
490
TOTAL
5,576
5.465
6,003
5,261
5,609
5,237
6,081
5,581
5,587
5,238
5,260
4,923
65,821
66,294
17,886
1,166
490
223
1,879

aarterlie8_ ..-.- .... 4
i-mocthlies ...-.-------..-..-..---.-.-.--..-.--.-.. 1
Monthlies....---..-.---.-----.-----.----.--....--.-. 87
Semi-monthlies.......------------ .---..- ... 1
Weeklies-..-..-...------..- ----- ........20
Dailies--..-...-.--.------.-.-----...- ... 3
ToTAt, ._ _. .- - .... _ - 66
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 235
CLASSIFIED LIST OF CARD HOLDERS.
Architects _
Artists _______
Authors _____
Bakers ___.
Bankers ___
Blacksmiths _.
Boiler-Makers
3
12
3
6
19
5
6
Bookbinders __ 4
Brewers _______ 3
Brokers ________ 20
Butchers _____. 2
Cabinet Makers___ 2
Carpenters _ 28
Chemists ______ 5
Civil Engineers ___ 21
Clergymen _____ 11.
Clerks _________1,792
Conductors _______ 9
Contractors _____ 10
Dairymen ________ 3
Dressmakers _____ 8
Druggists ______ 16
Editors _________ 3
Electricians ________ 12
Engineers, R. E. ___ 9
Exporters ________ 10
Firemen ________ 41
Grocers ________ 20
Hair Dressers _____ 1
Inspectors ________ 13
Insurance Agents ___ 31
Iron Workers ___ 2
Jewelers ________ 4
Journalists ______ 5
Kindergarten Teachers _ 28
Lawyers ________ 51
Letter Carriers _-__ 4
Machinists _______ 68
Managers ________ 125
Merchants _______ 197
Milliners ________ 6
Musicians ________ 48
Painters ________ 12
Paper-hangers _____ 2
Pawn Brokers _...__ 3
Pilots__________ 4
Port Wardens ___ . 1
Plumbers _______ 11
Printers ________ 26
Photographers _ ___ 5
Policemen ______ 16
Planters ________ 8
Real Estate Agents__ 24
R.R. Officials ____._ 11
Reporters ________ 8
Secretaries (Private)_ 19
Steamship Officials __ 12
Stenographers _____ 116
Students ________2,667
Teachers _________ 139
Telegraph Operators _ 12
Tinners _________ 4
Trained Nurses ____ 31
Upholsterers _____ 7
Watchmen _______ 15
Wheelwrights _____ 8
Wood Dealers _____ 3
Females without employment ____1,140
Males without employment _______ 418
Grand Total___7,433
236 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
January 1, 1906, to January 1, 1907.
Receipts.
Cash on hand January 1,1906______$ 300 42
Prom City of Savannah_________ 3,500 00
From Georgia Historical Society___ 500 00
From fines and reserves________ 654 25
From books lost______________ 13 12$4,967 79
Expenditures.
Salaries _________________$1,908 00
Rent of books_______________ 400 08
New books_________________ 1,069 17
Periodicals, etc.__________ 215 48
Fuel ___________________ 84 50
Lighting __________________ 262 40
Stationery _________________ 129 75
Printing ____________-_ 10 50
Repairs _________________ 12 45
Improvements ________ 100 00
Furniture _________________ 36 00
Insurance ____ __ 15 00
Miscellaneous ____________ 415 54$4,658 87
Cash on hand January 1, 1907________ $308 92
The December, 1906, bills will about cover cash balanea
on hand.
Respectfully submitted.
(Signed) JOHN M. THOMAS,
Treasurer, Public Library.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 237
I have examined the accounts and books of the
Treasurer of the Public Library from the 1st of January,
1906, to the 1st of January, 1907, and find the same correct, with proper vouchers produced, and a balance in the
hands of the Treasurer of three hundred and eight dollars
and ninety-two cents.
(Signed) W. C. TRAVIS,
Chairman Finance Committee, Public Library.

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CITY OF SAVANNAH, GA.
Its Trade and Commerce
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1906.
COMPILED BY
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SHIPPING AT THE PORT OF SAVANNAH FOR THE YEARS 1906, 1905 AND 1904.
Arrivals from Foreign Ports .....................
Clearances for " " .....................
Arrivals Coastwise Steamships..... ..............
Clearances " " ..................
Arrivals ' ' Sailers ............ ...........
Clearances " " ........................
Coastwise Sailers include only American
Vessels ...................... ..................
YE
No,
106
206
674
572
269
261
2.088
*R 1906
Tonimg*
205,827
485,802
1,462.451
1,284,119
162,807
160,801
8 661 807
YEAR 1905
No.
140
199
670
581
245
244
2,046
Tonnigt
188,769
480,879
1,500,501
1,254,495
144,690
142,051
8,661.885
YEAR 1904
No.
Ill
196
607
514
288
285
2,001
Tnntg*
165,884
878,576
1,244,587
1,022,888
164,179
160,489
8.180,558
o
3
00
In addition there was a tonnage of more than 100,000 representing sloops, river steamers and
other craft plying between Savannah and nearby river points.
Foreign Exports from the Port of Savannah, Ga., for the Tear Ending December 31, 1906, and for the 16 Tears Preceeding.
COUNTRY Jannarj February March
Africa
Austria-Hungary _______
Belgium .__. ___
China ..
Cuba .
Chili . _ .. .. ...
Denmark _ _.
East Indies (Br)_ _____
England _
Egypt .. .. __________
France .. .
Greece -... ...
India (Br) _ _..--.
Ireland- ...... . .
Italy ---.
Netherlands _ _________
Nova Scotia, Etc. .
Peru .--.-. . _
Portugal .. -..._ ...
Russia _. .. ________
Scotland (see Eng.)_..
Spain ... ... _____
Sweden, Etc. ..--.. .
Totals -.-- __ ..1906..
.. _____ 1905
" " " 1Q01
" 1QAO
________ 1901 _
*' 1 QrtA
** 1 SQQ
tt 1 OAO
" 1 RQ7
" ..........1896.
* 1 SOd
" -. --.-.-1893.-
--. _ ....1892-.
. .... ___ 1891
" _ .......1890
* 44,158
82,270
59,544
87,716
660
85,388
556.365
1,450,779
&5,388
143,008
5.611
58.88*
159.121
72,900
1.157
3 4,540,185
3.938,625
7.893,709
6,882,150
5099.332
3.757.192
4,319,773
3.141,804
3,020,500
2,709,709
1.360 085
2,484,074
3,662,165
2.373.899
1.618 106
3,492 777
3.249,444
April May
3 40,836* 88,523$ 36,980
4,832
28.570
974,484
"148,385
1,606,915
41,790
379,793
35.684
142,812
67,436
$ 3 473,537
2.679.859
3.872,091
4,928.263
3,388 814
4650926
4.762.120
2 139,211
2,506,424
1.399,482 ..,...,._.
33,302
67,291
32,386
i
27,250
944,558
173.198
1,118,160
94,892
115,383
737
2,490
338.976
55678
1,984
1,254,125
.29,689
1,703,987
1.325
46,824
157,323
4,891
37,814
277.557
5400
$ 2,793 147
2 579,001
1,552940
4605.860
1.352 405
2,720,851
6.206.264
957.133
2.247,860
1.608.049
1 352,946 1 942,083
1.554103 1.292,602
999,283 1.262.792
1,069,959 1.117,796
2.587.415 1 167,248
3,030,868: 2004,608
2,206,202 1,621,869 i
$ 3,752,685
1.654.666
2,391.806
3.539,085
2.042930
3 137,333
3.310,838
653 111
1 524,133
1,166,364
1031,209
1,477.426
1,307.212
803,992
752.365
1.226996
811,181
$ 57,875
7,668
504,996
1.567,049
870
. 38 370
106.529
70,880
289.819
31,861
$ 2 675.911
5.062,122
820635
1.479,444
2.290.572
2.629.638
1.366,804
877702
890.857
1090874
1.449.343
835746
1,189.987
847.273
834.225
958.872
501,325
June
$ 81,805
17,332
4.000
507,868
392.925
1 032,739
10,850
359,440
2343
4,260
121,488
436837
89.627
2,700
5 3 114 214
2,345 618
856,840
749 610
1,540,027
1 459.007
1.190,082
1 212 859
1105,833
788496
865,892
638,863
712.131
929,103
762,429
705,899
465024
July
$ 22,187
79,309
19,253
296,355
213.948
974,637
721
50,369
7,867
50,173
11556
$ 1,726,325
3,333.987
543.162
763,426
1.038,873
1.452,505
1,306,641
1,076.125
839.272
588824
668.239
1.024,405
401,197
633.671
541.731
474,091
455,582
August
$ 82,138
60,452
47,936
602,901
52004
1,048,734
51,991
140.801
7,512
10,446
380.225
51508
12,492
52.543,140
2,833.809
535.333
474855
855.511
653264
1,120161
845555
722.415
657,171
646,931
549,729
283257
466,004
513,339
840052
322,433
September
* 23,986
43,375
22,139
1,542
319,838
145856
1,509,161
437.684
17,161
"" 8i~99i
343.768
86,149
$3032.650
8,856.613
9,815,325
4.889.382
6,620,984
2,676,564
6,424.584
3.077,701
1,501,923
1,928,908
1.680198
1,348.396
789,908
1,566.238
970,991
816.965
3,529,782
October November
$ 12.200
* 336,731 432 172
26,183 127,169
6,213
62720
2.249
3,316,985
789.974
5,182,607
224,445
238,642
7,550
302,627
1,223.339
250,221
$11,970.486
9.037,453
14.705.929
9854,486
7,260.964
6.818,107
9,442 112
4,743.510
3,088,128
5,164 491
2,721.958
4,495,246
8.894 571
4889,486
8,820,117
4,410,408
6,165,418
48,680
8,102
57,600
1,305
1,845,630
418,075
4 662.276
366,701
339680
183,118
1.104,456
354.314
$ 9,952.478
11.279.117
10.074 689
11 547.482
7,409,853
7,442.998
5,631 579
4,397 041
5 101.507
5.142,515
5,101,477
3.337 539
8.596,128
4 941,933
4.994.804
7.253.087
4,766,822
December
$ 24.523
351,706
112,755
76,462
. 11,210
1,032,633
1096198
4,867,446
238,285
511,807
12.499
10.580
11.999
811,397
150,247
177 320
11,270
3,040
$ 9,511,377
9.445,231
8.306,156
9,852,730
8.771,686
6,767 674
4.449,297
2.956.110
3.794,044
4,260.189
8 860,450
2,652,154
3,275,885
3,896.139
1,856.281
4.761,903
6,854899
Totals 1908
$ 12,200
48,509
1,596 299
89.938
1,382,556
418,705
45,900
11,210
263,498
81,464
11.681,731
4,116,617
26,774,490
2,916
1,119,536
2 980,359
22,772
17.890
13660
89,188
1,766,942
4,847,157
1,253,970
26,462
4,197
$ 58,867.666
62,546.011
61.368,615
58 566,773
47,671.951
44.166.059
49,530 255
26.077,862
26,842.891
26,405,522
22.680,811
21,690,283
21,374.516
23,535 503
20,419051
29,476,491
80,949,991
Totals 1906
$ 163.950
1.065.485
717,46-
12,506
25,300
11,249
404,715
45,306
11,881 341
71,335
2 988.916
31,301,155
7,345
1,489,137
1,975,634
30,701
18,673
111,087
13,904
8,101,473
57376
5,860,575
1,151,468
88.633
1.290
$ 62,546.011
Totals 19M
$ 4.253
34,538
560,841
475,837
2.857
87,318
9,330
80.845
8,955
15,781,284
2,936 173
80,216.948
3,275
5,719
3,186,092
1310.989
45,662
381.027
94.653
2 617,584
3.612.685
891,220
15.820
13,952
$ 61.368,615
___________
Totals' 1903
$ 6,277
55,295
529,153
1.559,705
145,325
7,081
161,350
12,603,251
3 529,680
28,886.379
18,021
24,411
1.368,150
1,567.137
130.613
21.926
120,198
83,492
3,326.468
3,121
55,988
4.032.751
811,712
11,089
$58,566.773
Totals 1902
$ 56,737
872.807
1,489,529
105,239
4.300
10,079
233,625
81.018
11,445.214
2.460,314
21,848,454
45.072
1.462,868
1.542 127
67,041
198.502
3.875
2,232.684
4.500
261.769
2 821.991
939,722
15,331
12,000
$ 47,671,951
Totals 1901
* 91,541
829,858
7.121
1,650,435
72,321
2,632
3,996
57,540
25,547
12.330,928
1,472.171
21,953,409
10,525
1,062,387
1,043,091
21,963
12,665
447,960
4453
288.049
8,215.821
9,015
33.958
25,102
44,166.059
Totals 1900
$ 122,113
537,235
2,382,283
63,740
16,748
78,838
13,976,623
1.636,133
22 633,813
54.200
2700.948
190.849
1,069,568
44,590
661,134
105,313
8.177.953
50,941
11,631
15,702
* 49,530,255
COUNTRY
Africa.
Argentine Republic.
Austra-Hungary.
Belgium.
Bermuda.
3raziL.
China (French).
Cuba.
Chill.
Denmark.
East Indies (Dutch).
England.
Egypt
Prance,
orermany.
Greece.
India (British).
Ireland.
Italy.
Japan.
Netherlands.
Nova Scotia, Etc.
Peru.
Portugal.
Quebec.
Russlsa.
San Domingo.
Scotland.
Spain.
Sweden and Norway.
Uraguay.
West Indies (British).
Totals ______ 1906
1 1 Qft
' 1QO4
_ .. __ 1902
' _....... .1901
' ._..__ _ 1899
* 1RQR
* 1fiQ 7
' ........ _1896
* 1&Q(_
' ______ __ .1894
* 1 QQ3
' ----____ 1892
" 1 SQ1
" __ .. ..1890
Coastwise Arrivals of American Vessels at Port of Savannah, Ga., for 1906.
(This does not include foreign steamships from American ports.)
MONTH, 1906
January.,...
February. _ .
March ........
April... ... .
AT A v
June . _ .....
July..........
August .... ...
September ...
October ..
November....
December ---.
Totals 1906
Totals 1905
Totals 1904
Totals 1903
Steamships
1
a
&
55
50
47
44
44
44
45
45
42
47
49
44
556
585
4H8
446
1
jl
117,756
106,449
97746
97,926
90,408
97,794
95,820
95.882
92,185
96,742
98,952
96,966
1,178,628
1,154,951
970,281
831,494
Schooners
I*
1
19
21
16
24
29
19
21
18
26
18
26
14
241
215
244
232
1
*l
z
12.787
12,818
10,297
18,777
16.456
9,995
12,911
7,074
15.093
6,988
16,820
7,937
142,908
120,749
187.878
184,448
Barkentlnea and firiga
1
1
55
1
2
1
1
2
2
2
1
12
7
13
11
I
*fi
595
1,108
507
562
755
1,174
1,815
562
Barks
1*

0
a
z
1
1
3
1
2
8
4
2
6,57817
8,725 16
6,994 15
5,56480
|J
683
656
1,921
656
2,561
1,676
2,852
1,826
11.501
9,985
9,713
21,001
Barges
b

B
a
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
8
7
6

n
#
1,875
558
1,118
254
495
1,599
1.878
7,277
10,281
9,594
Totals, 1906
te
>
77
71
66
72
77
67
72
58
78
63
79
69
884|
780
766
719
J
183.146
119,28?
109,807
114,181
108,640
111,105
112,199
102,456
109 884
106.540
114.259
106,781
1,847,205
1,299,641
1,184,460
992,507
Totals, 1906

fc.
70
55
59
65
70
66
52
68
57
78
58
82
;ao
a
*> ajH
y.
115,621
97,168
98; 859
108,829
107,806
107,976
100.114
110,295
104,482
128,164
106,704
124,678
1,299,641
Totals, 190t
S,
fc
68
58
70
71
70
54
60
68
59
74
62
57
766
!
r
91,324
83,020
89,056
94,191
92,859
80,689
90,451
101,998
97,898
118,941
100,612
98,419
1,134,460
' Totals, 1903
OB
1

47
68
50
76
52
58
61
52
66
68
58
68
719
e
Jef>
K
71,887
80,809
72,989
89,008
76507
87,983
87,430
78,067
92,915
91,448
82,932
86,595
992,507
a
cj
Increase in tonnage coastwise arrivals 1906 over 1905, 47,566 tons.
1906 " 1904, 212,747 "
1906 " 1908, 854,700 "
Arrivals and Clearances of Vessels at the Custom House, Savannah,
Ga., for Thirty-four Tears.
(This Statement does not Include Coastwise Sailing Vessels -which do not enter or
clear at the Custom House.)
ARRIVED.
1
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1874
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
COAST W 13 K
No. .Tons
46al 381.5U5
418 a54.700
370 310.887
355
333 32.'
319
338
382
391
38o
388
395
392
430
411
409
188J 483
1891 484
1892 449
1893
1894
445
445
4895 467
1896 421
1897 442
320,015
379.8-->6
385.532
414,794
446,881
508,422
544.468
468,226
482,317
493,610
503073
543,235
539,576
561,463
717,561
719.328
6^2,726
667,848
691,603
732707
697,577
734,716
1098 423 700,681
18M
190C
473 784,131
1 481 835.3S8
1901 513 850,877
|902
190C
580 1, 059,031
I 551 iru<U
1904 807 l',244/>37
1905 670 1.500,501
1906 674 1,462,451
Crew
11.934
10.048
10,102
111,348
10,867
10,688
8^35
9,996
11,089
12,h05
10,659
13,735
14,622
14,534
15.127
14,907
15,547
19.178
19,014
18345
16.970
17,354
18.045
17,502
18,655
FOKEIGN FOKT8
Am. Vessels
No.
34
Tons
16.140
6 41,030
871 ,8S2
58
54
61
40,298
40,948
45,506
30 21.994
14
A
11
10
14
12
10
8
8
12
9
13
6
7
6
5
7
8
17,665 8
19,614 21
19,449 32
18,508' 21
22,265' 7
21,380
24,429
27,556; 1
27,450!....
C'w
383
487
781
967
951
576
1.676
7.7*4 439
10,729 170
4,865! 237
4,115
5,632
5,058
5,952
2725
3,500
6,563
2,303
4,778
3,000
108
90
116 13-"
185
60
111
66
123
51
2.761 69
3,77| 68
3,80f 46
4884 58
4^36 153
4,820| 14
9,337 307
11,725 189
12,084 254
3,929 52
3274 81
For. Vessels
No.
213
284
222
260
287
328
279
244
254
204
160
287
251
268
251
22U
309
300
325
358
330
258
235
269
297
307
252
260
249
172
145
111
Tons
119,316
C'w
2.999
182,517 4,232
145,748! 3,290
160,640 3.865
168^47
:-35,787
198.040
172,224
151.463
115,061
3,950
5,814
3,960
3,533
3,474
2,718
87,020 1965
174.B76 3.984
183,321! 3,416
177,229! 3,719
130,136 2,800
146,075 3,2?8
215,865 4,530
193263 4,058
238,123 4,790
259.482 5.228
255,632 4,796
222.383 4,152
204,177 3,588
253,754 4,359
315.120 5,24*
316,411
267,911
291.8K3
5,229
4,186
4.216
277,380 4,369
197,792
803,277
185.381
103 185,495
3,128
3.069 2,5a3
2,573
106' 205,327 2.646
TOTAL
No.
710
Tons
517.051
768 578,247
659 495.923
673 530,496
674 089,021
709 668,5-27
628 634.828
59S
658
606
550
689
658
671
669
618
730
772
822
813
775
709
707
697
747
738
746
763
774
759
696
718
780
78
625,829
470,614
066,374
659,366
663,225
668,989
686.254
677,096
889,211
783,891
913,217
982,22
955,208
B:3.4t
917,863
940,564
K56215
1,054.072
1,021,912
1,lfflU279
1438,976
1440.341
1.260,603
1,409,921
1.886,270
1,867,778
Crew
15,316 15,127
14,173
15,20U
15,768
18,1/78
12,634
13,fi9
14,780
16/29
12,714
17.835
Greatest
Draft,Feet
17.60
17.50
17.50
17.75
18.25
18.50
17.75
18.33
19X10
19.00
18.25
1900
18,1631 2.76
18,438| 2000
17987
18,306
20,231
23,385
20,927
23,624
21,946
21/64
21,689
21,919
24,050
23,037
24.IU7
23.854
23,132
25,443
24,449
26,992
80,190
30,102
2040
2067
2070
20 CO
2000
20.00
2212
"2007
2260
2350
2400
2400
24.05
2328
2550
25 JO
KM
2540
2S.60
CLEARED.
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1832
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
IflflO lew
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1997
1898
1899
1900
1(101
1902
1MB
IflfU inw*
1905
1S06
i [
466 386,(B 13,740
480 407,295 12,748
319 234,8311 9,376
410 361,999 11,222
4CO 439,37u| 12,081
378 4' 8,9531 10,475
365 442,734 8.834
310 434,884 10,108
36U 508,422 11,458
350 506,213 11,917
Wo 415.720 9,780
360 452,802 13,363
414 502,773 14.B72
878, 473,134 13.912
380 480,030 14,167
382 507,075 14,231
395 540293 15,505
4M 663,227 18,815
445 676.900 18,200
453 685,620 18,335
411 62Z381 16,190
403 636,202 16,425
412 643.3U3 16,642
365 623,966 16.293
383 668,946 17,680
387; 643,365 18,902
436 730,568 18,75t>
432 743,217 18.127
481 756,387 17,122
480 852,586 19,49.}
488 905,379 19,097
514 1,022,388 21,269
581 1,254,495 22,727
572 1,234.119 24,377
65
71
72
80
65
61
30.1CC
40,307
39,311
49,483
44,829
40.128
X 24,891
26 12,596
22
23
10
15
20
3
4
8
7
14
4
7
9
1
*
6
6
7
17
8
7
9
8
13,052
9,155
669 224
822; 229
804 195
1.163 185
1.046 161
1,255
497
271
253
205
4,115 90
5,6341 131
8,722 148
98 24
67W 29
2,583 63
1,323 51
4,067 161
9,909! 206
1,766 48
4,059! 75
1,555' 32
718
2.763
2,534
3,552
8.420
3,252
21
260
223
242
281
209
165
285
228
282
2S8
233
307
323
339
353
338
311
297
57i 311
55 338
60 326
2111 281
91:311
2.574 63 281
5,041 84 257
i
129,164
145.038
128,056
110,699
103,342
183,757
3,194
3,437
2,924
2.K27
2,489
5,375
156,070 3.129
168,256 3.446
180,57ft 3,745
135,375
87.400
194,075
154,858
194,793
202,666
187,836
228,181
248,013
271,067
263,166
282,680
289,882
303,534
315,615
373.714
353,3.18
315,114
377,780
368,553
377,115
3.023
2,015
4315
3,344
3,970
4486
3.557
4,601
5,078
5,429
5,151
5,524
5.155
5,220
5,310
8437
5,731
4,992
755
780
586
675
826
702
624
578
652
582
530
663
662
643
653
623
711
789
788
813
749
718
711
683
730
i
557,316 17.632
592,730 17,0117
452,228 13.404
631,781
587,541
642,843
15,212
15,736
17,105
624.095 12,460
615,655 13.825
702,053 15,456
650,743 15.145
507.235 11.885
652.411
666,363
868,867
683.364
677.494
767,747
913,327
57,876
950,252
905.061
>J7,639
947.555
942,344
1.015.194
720 1.006,243
734' 1,054.102
5,851 751
5,641 75S
5.645 746
210 357.337 5.145 696
........... 19(5' 373>76 5-Za 710
6,042 128 191' 424,228 1 .
5,538 780
1,124,249
1,127,514
1,279,742
1,262.7 IB
1,395.964
I.68H.365
17,809
18,164
17.906
18,382
17,861
2",157
24.054
23,837
23,484
21,714
21,612
21,883
21,660
23.872
22,693
23,959
24,009
22,876
25^22
24,242
28,582
28,396
17.50
17.50
17.50
17.75
18.25
18.50
17.75
18.83
19.00
19.00
18.35
19.00
20.17
20.00
20.00
20.75
20.75
2180
21.75
22.60
23.03
23.60
24.00
25.00
24.10
24.08
24.38
25.50
25.50
25.50
25.50
206 435,802 5,802 778 1.669,921 30.179 2 50
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 245
Table of Comparative Railway Distances.
Portland, Ore........ .......
San Francisco. Cal. ... __
Omaha. Neb .--. ......
Salt Lake City, Utah ........
Kansas City, Mo. __ ........
St. Louis. Mo. ....... __ __
Memphis, Tenn. . .. ..
Nashville Tenn. ............
Chattanooga, Tenn. .........
Birmingham, Ala.... -...-
Montgomery, Ala. ........ _
Atlanta, Ga... ...... ........
Boston
Miles
8,172
8,858
1,516
2595
1,468
1,208
1,447
1,201
1.137
1 255
1,263
1,038
a

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Miles
8,225
8,269
1,883
2,506
1,342
1.048
1.234
1,052
1,042
1,050
875
Baltimore
Miles
8166
3,210
1,824
2,447
1,803
1.008
1,020
670
719
855
863
688
Norfolk
Miles
3.224
8.306
1,392
2,505
1,279
979
980
821
670
712
720
545
Savannah
Miles
3
1 CO
3 IRQ
1,30J
2.386
1,159
fiOQ
672
583
432
421
359
294
1
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sg* H*
III
Miles
87
101
80
120
183
159
562
469
492
621
691
581
Prom the above table of railway distances it will be seen
that St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, and other centers for
the distribution of food products, as well as Chattanooga,
Birmingham, and other important points in the mineral section of the South, are many miles nearer to Savannah than to
any of the Northern seaports.
The comparison in favor of the Gulf Ports from some of
the points named is still more favorable, but the greatly
increased water mileage from ports on the Gulf Coast* to
Europe or to the North Atlantic ports, and the heavy marine
insurance around the dangerous capes of Florida have
nlready favored the commerce of the South Atlantic ports,
and the tendency in that direction is likely to increase.
*The average ran from Savannah to Liverpool by sailing vessel is ten days less than from New Orleans.
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February
March
April
May
Jane
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October
November
December
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MONTH
January.... . ........
February........ .... ....
March .......................
April............ ...........
May....... . ..........
June ............ .. .. .
July.........................
August ._..-----.--...--.....
September..... ...... ....
October .. ........
November ..--...
December........ ............
Totals 1906 ..................
Totals 1905 ..................
Totals 1904 ..................
Voliioa 10ftft
Values 1905.. ................
Values 1904.. ...... ..........
SEA ISLAND
COTTON
(Bales)
2,662
2,959
8.140
1,222
225
266
25
1,108
2,648
2.809
16,554
10,941
16,507
$1,449,618
887,842
1,474,187
COTTON SEED
OIL
(Gallons)
527,548
751,661
448,868
191.787
220,628
898,488
62,970
182,897
253,017
881,624
298.458
904,577
4,511,418
2,457,171
968,245
$1,760,668
701,826
297,577
COTTON SEED
MEAL
(Pounds)
18 508,190
7,011,180
9,475,400
1 970,100
1,117,900
1,980,000
2.159,200
4,078,000
112,000
6,792,000
5,474,671
53.628,641
88,600,172
18,635.450
$552,286
904,784
198,922
COTTON SEED
(Pounds)
1,846,959
1 A9O ftQO,
1 781 945
211,868
112,787
67,407
SO, 284
40,845
748,180
1,845,407
1,988,848
9,768,879
13,068.054
9,028,641
$ 95,775
118,808
86,042
STAVES
(Number)
ftO QOA
89,624
91,175
Aa 070
5,664
58,251
98.450 10 4fln
66,165
8,185
10,151
515,025
8*74. AQO
819,776
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Total Values for 1905 .....
Increase for 1906 over 1905
Percentage of Increase ....
. $ 8,892,242
. 2,574,129
. 1,818,118
61 per cent
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COUNTRY
Austria.......
England...
Germany .....
Italy
Netherlands . .
Spain. ........
Sweden... -
Other Countries .......
Totals ...1906
Totals ...1905
Totals ...1904
Totals ..1908
Totals ...1902
Totals ....1901
Values. ...1906
Values.... 1905
Values... .1904
Values. ...1908
Values.... 1902
Values....01
January
897
2,878
9,908
1,877
4,974
19,584
18591
8686
7,157
8,794
9,886
$195,840
185,915
86,860
71.576
87.940
100,286
February
""9"048
1,976
8,857
18,876
12,497
18.186
8,644
18,005
17,106
$188,760
124,970
181,860
88,451
180,050
205,628
Mftroh
8,098
2.474
9,818
2,417
17,802
22,719
12,681
28043
10.240
12,059
$178,020
227.190
126,810
280,424
102,400
181,840
April
1.468
2,428
9,487
1.085
2,767
2,782
19.967
16.087
21,569
20,048
20,025
16,428
$199,870
160,870
215.690
200,487
200,250
189,800
May
1.108
15009
1,594
17.711
18,588
10,182
14,108
21,287
16,042
$177,110
185.880
101,884
141,089
212,876
200850
Juno
1,192
2,968
8,917
911
8,988
18.415
7,924
6,084
15,408
6,558
$ 89,880
184.150
79,240
60,880
154,081
74,415
July
8.010
1,006
4,076
5.865
5,160
8.850
8,911
7,640
$ 40,760
58.650
51,680
88,500
89,110
76,415
August
1,012
845
8,118
5,878
16,048
9,688
8,722
8,024
10,287
$160.480
96,880
87.228
80,240
102,870
Septe'ber
1,094
2,749
8,988
2800
10.681
25,892
28.224
18,677
84,440
18,488
$106,810
258,920
282,245
186,776
844,422
184,845
October
1,666
5,099
7.865
12.842
24,095
19,414
27,705
25,810
$ 78,850
128.860
247215
194,155
277,040
258,115
Govern ' r
1,095
2,400
8,272
1,175
8,828
11266
14,629
18.198
19,880
20,948
17,498
$112.660
146,290
181,985
198,800
209498
174,998
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14,427
597
956
5,980
16.029
8,579
18,565
10,021
11,081
$ 59,800
160,290
85.790
185.650
100,190
110.880
rotali, 1906
18,680
19,252
93,488
8,285
21,046
10,868
164,959
185,787
152,456
156,488
185,778
168,828
$ 1.649.590
1,857,815
1,527,887
1,564,408
1 857,852
1,809,840
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 353
Savannah's Coastwise Trade.
The quantity of freights handled by the vessels visiting
this port during 1906 was not less than 2,000,000 tons. There
are four railroads centering here, whose tracks cover ten
Southern States with a population of 17,000,000. They are
the Central of Georgia, mileage 1,890; Seaboard Air Line,
mileage 2,879; Atlantic Coast Line, mileage 4,334; Southern,
mileage 7,631, the Brinson Railroad, now under construction,
with a proposed mileage of 200; a total mileage of 16,934.
Their terminals here cover nearly 800 acres. Two steamship
lines ply regularly between Savannah and Northern ports.
They are the Ocean Steamship Company, operating ten steamships, with a total gross tonnage of 42,299 and the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company, operating eight
steamships with a total gross tonnage of 16,416, giving
eighteen steamships with a total tonnage of 58,715, regularly employed in the trade of this port. These vessels carry
passengers in addition to freights and give each way three
sailings weekly to New York, two to Boston, two to Philadelphia, and three to Baltimore, and at times a schedule is
maintained with Norfolk. The Ocean Steamship Company
has another large steamship in construction 'for its New
York-Savannah line, named the City of Savannah, with a
tonnage of 5,900.
254 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Assessments for Taxation at Savannah, Ga., for Twelve Years.
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1,1906 .......... ....
1905 ...............
1904......... .....
1908-.... .... ......
1902 ...............
1901 ...............
1900...............
1899 ............ ..
1898... ... .......
1897..............
1896...... ........
1895 ...............
City
Real Estate
129,356642
23,975,057
28,044,040
27290 022
26 230 742
25,965,076
24,920,795
24,425,620
24,360,457
24,163,380
24,763,080
City
Personalty
12,494,700
11,791,620
11,007,880
11,070,935
10,877 335
10,617.783
10,560,052
10,629,258
10,409.018
9,160.522
9,160,522
TOTALS
145,185,698
41,851,842
40,766,677
89 051.920
88.860,957
87,108,077
86,582,859
85,480,847
85,054,987
84,769,475
83,323,902
83,923,602
The net City-tax rate is $1.25 on the $100. The City government's income is, in round figures, $1,000,000 a year, of
which a large amount is yearly spent on public improvements of a permanent nature.
255 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
SAVANNAH'S CLIMATE
(1871-1906, Inclusive)
TKMPBRATURB, RAINFALL AND MISCELLANEOUS DATA.
Compiled from United States Weatber Bureau Records at Savannah, Ga., Thirty-six Years.
TEMPERATURE.
Annual
Mean
<>
Highest Minimam on Record
105
Date
July 12,
1879
Lowest Minimum
on Record
i
Date
Feb. 13,
1899
Absolute
Range
97
SEASONAL TEMPERATURE MEANS.
Mean...
...82
...61
...58
...52
March ......
April.. ......
May.........
Mean...
B9' Jfnn .. ... 66 -Tnlv
....68 Mean....
....J9o
.....IB0
.....81
.....81 Mean....
....760
....87
.580
....67
PRECIPITATION (Amount of Rain-fall In Inches and hundredth*).
Annual Mean
00.18
Greatest Yearly
73.94
Tear
1885
Least Yearly
86.84
Year
1901
SEASONAL RAINFALL, AVERAGES IN INCHES.
December . _ 3.08
February. .....3.32
Sea'able Avge.9.48
March.. ...... .3.81
April. ....... ..3.0*
May..... .....2.99
Sea'able Avge.B.64
July ...... ..tUW
August.. ......7.5
Sea'ble A'gelZte
September. . . .5.51
October.....-3.5l
November. 2.35
Sea'able A'gell-37
MISCELLANEOUS DATA.
Month
January
February ....
March ........
April..........
May...........
July.. .. .......
September ....
October ......
November ....
December _
Total........
Average number of days with
.01 of an inch or
more of precipitation.
10
10
9
7
9
12
13
14
11
7
9
118
Average number of clear
days.
10
9
13
13
13
8
8
8
11
14
IS
12
130
Average number of partly
cloudy days.
11
10
11
11
13
15
16
15
11
10
10
10
143
Average number of cloudy
days.
10
9
8
8
5
7
7
8
8
8
9
92
Average date on which first "killing" frost occurred (in autumn), November 86.
Average date on which last "killing" frost occurred (in spring), February 26-
H. B. SOTER, Local Forecaster,
Savannah, &a.

ORDINANCES
OF THE
CITY OF SAVANNAH
TOGETHER WITH IMPORTANT
Reports and Resolutions
ADOPTED DURING THE YEAR
1906.
COMPILED BY
THOMAS HALLIGAN,
Clerk of Council.

MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 259
ORDINANCES.
Sale of Land.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
An ordinance to provide for the sale of the northern
portion of lot numbered thirty-one (31), Reppard "Ward,
Savannah, Georgia, to Rutherford R. Oakman, and for other
purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
o the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, that the
Mayor, or Acting Mayor, of the City of Savannah is hereby
authorized and directed to convey, 'by warranty deed, in
the name of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, and under its seal, attested by the Clerk of Council, to Rutherford R. Oakman, at and for the sum of four
hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents
($437.76) to be paid into the City Treasury, all that parcel
of land in Savannah, Georgia, known as the northern portion of lot numbered thirty-one (31), Reppard Ward, lying
to the south of and adjoining lot lettered P of said ward
and to the northward of a lane, being almost a rectangular
parallelogram in shape, twenty-nine and forty-one hundredths (29.41) 'feet long on its northern side, twenty-two
and nine-tenths (22.9) feet wide on its eastern and western
^ides. embracing six hundred and seventy-three and fortyeight one hundredths (673.48) square feet, and the said
tract being bounded north by lot lettered F, said ward,
east by a portion of lot thirty-one (31), said ward, south
by a public lane, and west of Bull street, all as expressed
upon a plat made by J. W. Howard, Assistant City Engineer,
December 26, 1905, which plat will be attached to and form
part of said deed.
260 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained that all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed so far
as this land is concerned.
Ordinance passed January 3, 1906.
Sidewalks.
By the Streets and Lanes Committee
An ordinance to amend an ordinance entitled "An
ordinance to secure uniformity in the sidewalks in the City
of Savannah, mentioned in this ordinance, to, provide for
the width of sidewalks and roadways, the materials to "be
used for the sidewalks and for other purposes," adopted
Feb. 9, 1902, "so far as the same relates to Gwinnett street,
from East Broad street to the city limits and for other
purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
ordinance mentioned in the caption hereof is hereby
amended in the fiijjt section thereof so far as the same
relates to Gwinnett street, from East Broad street to City
limits, by striking out in said clause the word "ten" and the
figure "10," and by inserting in lieu thereof the word
"seven" and the figure "7," so that said clause relating to
Gwinnett street, as aforesaid, when amended, shall read
as follows:
Gwinnett street, from East Broad street to the City
limits, shall have a roadway forty (40) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof seven (7) feet in width, and
grass plats on either side thereof ten (10) feet in width,
and said ordinance, except as herein amended, shall in all
respects stand approved and confirmed.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL, REPORT. 261
- Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts or ordnances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed January 3, 1906.
City OfficersReturn of Money Collected.
By the Committee on Finance
An ordinance to require all City officials, who may collect public moneys, to mak,e return thereof promptly, and
for other purposesSection 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That all
officials of the City of Savannah, who from time to time,
in the course of th,eir official duties, may collect moneys
which belong to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, shall make written return? of the same, specifying the said amounts and detailing on what accounts,
respectively, th,ey are collected, to the City Treasurer, on
the day of the collection thereof, and pay in the same to the
City treasury on that day, taking proper vouchers therefor; and if, for any good reason, it be impossible to make
such return and pay in said money on that day. then the
said return and the said payment shall be made to said
City Treasurer before 2 o'clock p. m. on the following
day, unless the same be Sunday or a legal holiday, in which
event the said return and the said payment shall be made
on the day following such Sunday or holiday, and when
payment is made on a day other than the day on which
said money was collected the reasola therefor shall be made
to appear in the return made by such City ^official.
262 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
See. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed January 3, 1906.
Plumbing Inspector.
By the Committee of the Whole
\
An ordinance touching and regulating the appointment of Inspector of Plumbing in and for Savannah,
Georgia, his oath, bond, duties, discharge, and other matters germane to said office, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That an inspector of plumbing in and for Savannah, Georgia, who
shall be a resident of said City, shall be apointed by the
Mayor, with the approval of Council, who shall be paid
a salary of one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) per
month, out of the-City Treasury, and who shall be subject
to be discharged at any time by the Mayor, for causes
deemed sufficient by the latter.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That before entering
on the discharge of his duties such Inspector of Plumbing
shall take and subscribe an oath to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his office, which oath, ehall
be taken and filed with the Clerk of Council.
No person who has any interest, directly or indirectly,
in any plumbing business in Savannah, Georgia, shall be
qualified to hold such office.
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 263
"He shall giye bond, with a surety company as surety,
acceptable to the Mayor, in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), conditioned for the faithful performance of
his duties as such Inspector.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That said Inspector of
Plumbing shall belong to the department, and be under the
jurisdiction of the Committee on Public Health.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That the general duties
of said Inspector shall be as prescribed in existing ordinances, or as may be hereafter ordained.
Sec. 5. Be it farther ordained, That all ordinances
and part*} of ordinances conflicting herewith are repealed.
Ordinance passed January 3, 1906.
City Officers.
By the Committee of the Whole
An ordinance regulating the hours of business in the
office of City Treasurer of Savannah, Georgia, and for other
purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah', in Council assembled, That the
hours of business in the office of the City Treasurer of Savannah, Georgia, -shall be from nine (9) ^>'clock a. m.
until two (2) o'clock p. m. ,each day (Sundays and legal
holidays excepted), and from and after two (2) o'clock
p. m. said office ishall be closed to the public.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
264 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed January 3, 1906.
Sale of Land.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
An ordinance to provide for the sale of the northern
portion of lot numbered thirty-nine (39), Eeppard "Ward,
Savannah, Georgia, to E. B. Eeppard and C. V. Snedeker,
and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
Mayor or Acting Mayor of said City, is hereby authorized
and directed to convey, by warranty deed, in the name of
the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, and
under its seal, attested by the Clerk of Council, to E. B.
Eeppard and C. V. Snedeker, at and for the sum of two
hundred and fifty dollars ($250), to be paid into the City
Treasury, all that parcel of land in the City of Savannah,
Georgia, known as the northern portion of lot numbered
thirty-nine (39), Eeppard Ward, lying to the south of and
adjoining the eastern half of lot numbered thirty-three (33),
said ward, and to the northward of a lane, being almost
a rectangular parallelogram in shape eighteen and seventenths (18.7) feet on its northern line, and twenty-three and
five-tenths (23.5) on its eastern and western lines, and embracing four hundred and thirty-nine and forty-five one
hundredtbs (439.45) square feet, and bounded on the
north by the eastarn half of lot thirty-three (33). east by
a portion of said lot thirty-nine (39), south by a public lana
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 265
and west by a portion of lot thirty-nine (39), all as expressed
upon a plat of the sam,e made by J. W. Howard, Assistant
City Engineer, Jan. 4, 1906, which plat will be attached
to and form part of said deed.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the said R. B.
Reppard and C. V. Snedeker, in further consideration of
the foregoing, shall quit-claim and convey to the Mayor
and Aldermen of the City of Savannah any right, title,
interest and estate they may have or claim in and to land
in Thirty-third street beyond the southern line of said
street as now established, so far as the said eastern half
of lot numbered thirty-three (33) is concerned, and the
conveyance between the parties shall be in such form as
the City Attorney may prescribe.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinance^
and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed
so far as the land hereby conveyed is concerned.
Ordinance passed January 31, 1906.
Sale and Conveyance of Land.
By the Committee on City Lots, and Opening Streets
An ordinance confirming certain sales and conveyances
of land in Reppard Ward, Savannah, Ga., portions of lots
31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, and 39, lying to the northward
of and adjoining a lane, to diverse parties, and for other
purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldjrmen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That sales
recently made by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, under resolutions of Council, by duplicate
266 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
deeds of sale and exchange, conveying portions of lots 31,
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, and 39, Kepard Ward, lying to the
northward of and adjoining a lane, to R. E. Oakman, B.
S. Wells et al., Elizabeth A. Derby, John L. Day, and A. V.
Chaplin, respectively, at and for consideratioBp (set out in
said deeds, be and same are in all respects confirmed.
S3C. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed, so far as the land herein mentioned is concerned.
Ordinance passed January 31, 1906.
Sale of Land.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
An ordinance to provide for sale of the northern portions of lots 37 and 38, Reppard Ward, Savannah, Georgia,
to Walter L. Bourne, by duplicate deeds of sale and exchange, the said Bourne conveying to the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Savannah all his right, title, interest, estate, and claim to the northern portion of lot No.
27, said Ward, lying to the northward of the southern line
of Thirty-third street as now established, and for other
purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
Mayor or Acting Mayor of said City is hereby authorized
and directed to convey by duplicate warranty deed, in the
name of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah,
and under its qeal, attested by the Clerk of Council, to
Walter L. Bourne, the northern portions of lots thirtyseven and thirty-eight, Reppard Ward, which lie to the
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 267
southward of and adjoining lot twenty-seven, said Ward,
and to the northward of a lane, the said portions of said
lots thirty-seven and thirty-eight bounded on the east by
a portion of lot numbered thirty-eight and on the west by
a portion of lot numbered thirty-seven, to be delineated
on a plat of the isame to be made by the City Engineer,
or his assistant, said plat to be attached to the deed; and
in said duplicate deed the said Bourne is to convey to the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah all the northern portion of lot twenty-seven, said Ward, and all his
claim thereto, lying to the northward of the southern line
of Thirty-third strqet as now established, and said deeds
to be in such form as the City Attorney shall dictate, and
title to be satisfactory to him.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed,
so far as said land herein conveyed to the Mayor.and Aldermen of the City of Savannah is concerned.
Ordinance passed January 31, 1906.
Streets and LanesPaving.
By Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance for the improvement of Montgomery
street, from-the north property line of Broughtoh street
to the south property line of Congreos street, under the
terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the
268 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of
Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887, That the directors of public
works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on
Streets and Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby,
authorized and directed to build and construct on Montgomery street, in the City of Savannah, from the north
property line of Broughton street to the south property line
of Congress street, a roadway of vitrified brick forty-five
(45) feet in width between the curbing, said pavement at
all street and lan^e intersections to extend over the full
width of said streetthat is to say, to lines coincident with
the respective property lines, and they are authorized and
directed to lay the necessary curbing and to do all tha
work in the way of grading, the placing of catch-basins,
drains, crossings, and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion
of Montgomery street.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That a street railroad
company having tracks running through said portion of
Montgomery street to be improved under this ordinance
is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two
feet on each side of every line of the tracks of said street
railroad company with vitrified brick, as the work progresr.es, and in the event this is not done by said company,
the said director of public works and the said committee
shall see to its being done at the expense of said street
railroad company.
See. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the total
cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a street
railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third
(1-3) of such total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury, and the other two-thirds (2-3) by the persons owning,
at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate
abutting on said portion of Montgomery street to be im-
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 269
proved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and
the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby
assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners,
as aforesaid, according to frontage.
The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is
assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Montgomery street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be for all the intents
and purposes of this ordinance the owner of the real estate
so abutting, and shall pay from the City treasury its just
pro rata as such owner of the cost of said work, according
to frontage, in addition to its one-third (1-3) of the entire
cost as hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed,
the said director and the said committee shall prepare and
submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement
showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for,
and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds (2-3)
of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among
the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane
intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel, with the name of the owner.
Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement
and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah,
it shall then become the duty of City Treasurer to send to the
abutting property owners their proper bill for the same,
as it may be ascertained by tfye City Council, and if such
bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the
presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become
the duty of the City Treasurer to issue execution for the
amount, together with cost(s, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied
270 MAYOR'S ANNUAL. REPORT.
out of the property described therein, as are executions
for City taxes. The said statement and assessment roll
shall also show the amount payable by any street railroad
company, and should said company fail or refuse to pay
a bill for the same thirty (30) days after the presentation
or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the City
Treasurer to issue execution against caid company and
its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall
be made and levied as are executions for City taxes.
See. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed January 31, 1906.
Streets and LanesPaving.
By Committee on Streets and Lanes^-
AB ordinance for the improvement of Barnard street
from the north line of State street to tha south line of
Broughton street, under the terms and provisions of an
act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the
terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1,1887, That the Director of Public Works
for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and
Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby, authorized
and directed to build and construct on. Barnard street, in
the City of Savannah, from the north line of State street
to the south line of Broughton street, a roadway of vitrified
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brick forty-five (45) feet in width between curbing, said
pavement at all street and lane intersections to extend
over the full width of Barnard street, that is to say, to lines
coincident with the respective property lines, and they are
authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing and
to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of
catch-basins, drains, crossings, and all other things incident
to the construction and completion of said roadway on said
portion of Barnard street.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That a street railroad
company having tracks running through ^aid portion of
Barnard street to be improved under this ordinance, is
hereby required to pave the width of ite tracks and two
feet on each side of every line of the tracks of said street
railroad company, with vitrified brick, as the said work
progresses, and in the event this is not done by said company, the said Director of Public Works and the said Committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said
street railroad company.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained.. That after the total
cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a street
railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third
(1-3 of such total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury, and the other two-thirds (2-3) by the persons owning
at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real
estate abutting on isaid portion of Barnard street, to be
improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and
the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby
assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners,
a aforesaid, according to frontage.

The frontage of intersecting (streets and lanes is
assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Barnard
street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the
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City of Savannah shall be for all the intents and purposes
of this ordinance the owner of the real estate so abutting,
and shall pay from the City treasury its just pro rata as
such owner of the costs of said work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third (1-3) of the entire cost as
hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed,
the said Director aad the said Committees shall prepare and
submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement
showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for,
and also an assssment roll showing as to two-thirds (2-3)
of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among
the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane
intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel,
with the name of the owner.
Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper
bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City
Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty
(30) days after the presentation or sending of the same,
it shall then become the duty of the City Treanurer to
issue execution for the amount, together with the costs,
against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described
therein, as are executions for City taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by any street railroad company, and should such
company fail and refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty
(30) days after the presentation or sending of the same,
it shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill,
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together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are
executions for City taxes.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed January 31, 1906.
Sale of Land.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
An ordinance to provide for the sale of the northern
portion of lot numbered thirty-four, Gumming Ward, Savannah, Georgia, to John BL Grimm, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
Mayor or Acting Mayor of the City of Savannah, is hereby
authorized and directed to convey, by warranty deed, in
the name of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, and under its seal, attested by the Clerk of Council, to John H. Grimm, at and for the sum of eight hundred
and forty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents ($847.28),
to be paid into the City Treasurer, all that parcel of land
in Savannah, Ga., known as the northern portion of lot
numbered thirty-four (34), Gumming Ward, lying to the
south of and adjoining lots four and five, said Ward, and
to the. northward of a lane, being a rectangular parallelogram in shape, fifty-five feet on itc northern and southern
lines and twenty-three and seven-tenths feet on its eastern
and western lines, embracing thirteen hundred and three
and five-tenths (1,303.5) square feet; said tract of land
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being bounded on the north by lots four and five, said
ward, on the east by a portion of lot thirty-four, and on
the south by a public lane, and on the west by Abereorn
street; all as expressed and shown on a plat made by J.
W. Howard, Assistant City Engineer, Jan. 4, 1906, and
which plat will be attached to and form part of said deed.
See. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinance in conflict herewith are repealed BO
far as this land is concerned.
Ordinance passed January 31, 1906.
Sale of Land.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets:
An ordinance providing for the sale of northern portion of lot No. 40, Reppard Ward, in the City of Savannah,
Georgia, lying immediately south of and adjoining lot No.
19, said Ward, and to the northward of a lane, to Laura J.
Boyd, and also providing for the conveyance by Laura J.
Boyd to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah,
of all of the northern portion of lot No. 19, Reppard Ward,
lying to the northward of Thirty-third street as now established, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
Mayor or Acting Mayor of the City of Savannah is hereby
authorized and directed to execute duplicate deed with
Laura J. Boyd, in which there shall be conveyed to said
last-named person the northern portion of lot forty (40),
Reppard Ward, lying immediately south of and adjoining
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lot numbered nineteen (19), said Ward, and to the northward of a lane, the said tract being almost a rectangular
parallelogram, in shape, thirty-seven and five-tenths (37.5)
feet long from east to west and twenty-four and one-tenth
(24.1) feet wide from north to south, embracing nine hundred and three and seven-tenths (903.7) square feet, bounded on the north by lot numbered nineteen (19), on the
east by a portion of lot numbered forty (40), on the south
by a lane and on the west by a portion of lot numbered
forty (40), said Ward, as per plat made by J. W. Howard,
Assistant City Engineer, January 16, 1906, to be attached
to said deed, as part thereof; and in consideration thereof,
and for other valuable considerations, the said Laura J.
Boyd is to convey in said duplicate deed to the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Savannah, all of the northern portion of lot numbered nineteen (19), Beppard Ward, lying
to the northward of the present line of Thirty-third street
as now established, so that hereafter the said lot numbered
nineteen, shall not extend northward beyond said southern
line of Thirty-third street as now established. The said
duplicate deeds to be in such form as the City Attorney may
dictate, and titles of Laura J. Boyd to be satisfactory to him.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed, so far
as said lands conveyed by the City to Laura J. Boyd, as
hereinbefore set out, is concerned.
Ordinance passed January 31, 1906.
Fire Department,
By Committee on Fire:
An ordinance to amend Section 3, paragraph 1 of an
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ordinance entitled fire department, of whom and what it
shall consist, adopted September 16, 1903, by increasing the
pay of assistant foremen.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
said section and paragraph be amended so that the said
sentence touching the pay of assistant foremen shall read
as follows: "The assistant foremen a salary of $780 per
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That said ordinance of
September 16, 1903, be, and the same shall remain, of full
force except as herein amended.
Ordinance passed February 14, 1906.
Streets and LanesStatements and Assessment Bolls.
By Committee on Streets and Lanes:
An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of a portion of
Gwinnett street, in the City of Savannah, from the east
property line of Drayton street to the east property line of
Harmon street, as made under an ordinance of the City of
Savannah, passed April 12, 1905.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the
Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah, and
the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said City, made under an ordinance passed April 12, 1905, and entitled: "An
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ordinance for the improvement of Gwinnett street from the
east property line of Drayton street to the east property line
of Harmon street, under the terms and provisions of an
act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1,
1887," be, and they are hereby, declared to be the official
statement and assessment roll of said improvement under
said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being
that entitled: "Statement and assessment roll for paving
Gwinnett street. Statement showing the cost of improvements to Gwinnett street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia,
beginning at the east property line of Drayton street, and
extending to the east property line of Harmon street. As
under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed April
12, 1905, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds
of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel,
with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council
of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said
statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to
enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation:
Provided, however, That affirming the legality and
correctness of said statement and assessment roll, and of
the ordinance of April 12, 1905, on which it is based, for
equitable considerations deemed sufficient by Council, it is
directed that the cost per front foot as brought down on
said statement and assessment roll be, and the same is hereby, reduced, as to the abutting property owners, other than
the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, to the
extent of twenty-seven (27) cents, making the cost per front
foot 'as to such abutting property owner, $1,763,718, and
said difference will be paid out of the City Treasury.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordanied, That the Treasurer of
the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and
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send to the property owners, including a railroad company,
a bill for the respective amounts due by them as provided
for by said ordinance; the bills to the abutting property
owners, other than the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
of Savannah, to be reduced at the rate of twenty-seven (27)
cents per front foot, and the amount named in the statement
and assessment roll as due by such abutting property owners will be lessened correspondingly. Should the said bills
be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the
bills, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue
executions as provided for by said ordinance, which shall
be made and levied as are executions for City taxes.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed February 28, 1906.
Streets and LanesPaving.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes:
An ordinance for the improvement of Price street, from
the south property line of Gaston street to the north property line of Gwinnett street, in the City of Savannah, under
the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of
Georgia, approved October 1, 1887.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of
the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms
and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, That the Director of Public Works
for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and
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Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby, authorized and
directed to build and construct on Price street, in the City
of Savannah, from the south property line of Gaston street
to the north property line of Gwinnett street, a roadway
of vitrified brick, twenty-seven (27) feet in width between
the curbing, said pavement at all street and lane intersections to extend over the full width of said Price street;
that is to say, to lines coincident with the respective property lines, and they are authorized and directed to lay the
necessary curbing and to do all the work in the way of
grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings, and
all other things incident to the construction and completion of the said roadway on the said portion of Price street.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That after the total
cost of the said work shall have been ascertained, one-third
of such total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury and
the other two-thirds from the persons owning, at the date of
the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on
said portion of Price street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of
the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said
abutting real estate, and its owners, as aforesaid, according
to frontage.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement herein provided for has been completed, the Director
of Public Works for the City of Savannah and said Committee on Streets and Lanes shall prepare and submit to the
Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the
cost of, improvement hereinbefore provided for, and also an
assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be
apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel,
with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and
adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Coun-
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cil of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty
of the City Treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same as it may be ascertained
by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid
within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending
of the same, it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to issue an execution for the amount, together with
coats, against the persons and property aforesaid, which
execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for City taxes.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed February 28,1896.
Sale of Land.
By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets:
An ordinance to provide for the sale of lots 93 and 94,
Owens Ward, in the City of Savannah, with improvements
thereon, to Carl Mendel and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That sale
be made of lots 93 and 94, in Owens Ward, in the City, with
improvements thereon, to Carl Mendel for $1,100 in cash,
to be paid into the City Treasury, and that a warranty deed
be made to him, said deed to be executed in the name of
the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah by the
Mayor or the Acting Mayor, attested by the Clerk of Council,
with the seal of the City attached.
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Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances or
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance he repealed so far as said land conveyed is concerned.
Ordinance passed April 11, 1906.
DECATTJR CAB WHEEL AND MANUFACTURING CO.
Laying Railroad Tracks on Streets.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes:
An ordinance granting to the Decatur Car "Wheel and
Manufacturing Company the right to lay certain railroad
tracks along and upon Stiles avenue and Gwinnett street,
in the City of Savannah, Georgia, and to maintain and operate the same upon certain terms and conditions, and for
other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
Decatur Car Wheel and Manufacturing Company is hereby
granted a right of way for a railroad track to be laid upon
and along Stiles avenue, in the City of Savannah, Georgia,
beginning at or near a point on said avenue where the Seaboard Air Line Railway track unites with the track of the
Central of Georgia Railway Company, just to the northward of the point where Peeley avenue enters Stiles avenue;
the said railroad track to run from said initial point, southwardly along and to the westward of the present track of
the Central of Georgia Railway Company on said avenue,
the center of the railroad track so to be laid to be twelve
and five-tenths (12.5) feet from the center of the present
track of the Central of Georgia Railway Company, and the
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said track so to be laid shall extend down said avenue to
Gwinnett street, and across said last-named street on a curve
to westward, leading into lot known as number one hundred
and three (103), Springfield Plantation. And said company is further granted the right to lay a railroad track,
as a continuation of the present spur track of the Central
of Georgia Railway Company, along said Stiles avenue and
across Gwinnett street, on a curve to the westward, into
said lot number one hundred and three (103).
Said railroad tracks are to be laid under the direction
of the City Engineer or Assistant City Engineer and the
Director of Public Works, and to the satisfaction of said
officers in all respects. A plat showing the location of said
tracks, made by John W. Howard, Assistant City Engineer,
on April 4,1906, is referred to as truly delineating the same;
copies of which plat will be attached to a duplicate agreement to be made between the Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of Savannah and Decatur Car Wheel and Manufacturing Company, to be executed in pursuance hereof.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That said tracks are
to be laid and constructed by Decatur Car Wheel and Manufacturing Company at its own expense, and this franchise
to use Stiles avenue and Gwinnett street for the purpose
of said rights of way for such tracks, is upon the condition
that the said company, its successors or assigns, shall use
such tracks for ingress to and egress from the proposed
factory or manufacturing establishment to be erected by
said Decatur Car Wheel and Manufacturing Company on
said lot one hundred and three (103) Springfield Plantation,
and the said company, its successors and assigns, shall enjoy the use of said avenue and street for the purposes declared herein only so long as it or they shall maintain and
operate said manufacturing establishment, and no longer;
and if the said company, or its assigns, shall at any time in
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the future abandon the maintenance and use of such factory
or manufacturing establishment, then all rights under this
franchise shall cease and be determined, and said company,
its successors or assigns, shall in such event remove said
tracks from said avenue and street, at its own expense, on
notice being given to that eft'ect by the municipal authorities of Savannah.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That the said company
is required to keep said tracks described in the foregoing
section in good order and condition, conforming in all respects to the grade of said avenue and street, and on notice,
at any time, from the municipal authorities of Savannah,
as to any grading or other work required, the said company
shall, as soon as possible, and within a reasonable time,
conform to such directions, and the maintenance of said
tracks in conformity with the requirements of the municipal
authorities shall be a part and parcel of this grant, and on
non-conformity on the part of said company, its successors
and assigns, with all these requirements, this grant shall
cease and be determined, and the like result shall follow
if said company, its successors or assigns, shall fail to provide suitable grade crossings at points where streets may
be projected across said tracks, to the satisfaction of the
municipal authorities of Savannah, at the expense of said
company, so as to afford access across said tracks, east and
west, as the municipal authorities of Savannah may, from
time to time, require.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That inasmuch as there
is to the northward of the intersection of Gwinnett street
and Stiles avenue a conduit leading into the waterworks
of Savannah and crossing Stiles avenue, it is required hereby that said company, in laying said tracks, will protect
said conduit as it may be required to do by the City Engineer or Assistant City Engineer and the Director of Public
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Works, with the farther right reserved to the municipal
authorities of Savannah, if at any time they shall desire to
repair said conduit or to lay new ones connecting with the
waterworks system, to dig under said tracks for that purpose, and the said company, its successors or assigns, shall
give to the municipal authorities of Savannah every facility
in this regard, and take steps, at its own expense, to protect
its own tracks, to the end that the municipal authorities of
Savannah shall at all times have the same.right to lay and
repair conduits along or across said Stiles avenue or Gwinnett street, as they now have.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That any manufacturing
establishments which may be located now or hereafter on
land to the east or west of said tracks, shall have the right
of conneution with said tracks for the same purposes as
they will be used by Decatur Car "Wheel and Manufacturing
Company, upon such persons or corporations owning such
manufacturing establishments, respectively, paying proper
compensation to Deeatur Car Wheel and Manufacturing
Company for such connections and the use of such tracks;
and if such compensation cannot be agreed upon by them,
then the matter shall be submitted to arbitration under the
code of Georgia, between Decatur Car Wheel and Manufacturing Company, its successors and assigns, and such person or corporation, as the ease may be, desiring connection
with and use of said tracks, and the award shall be binding
upon the parties to such arbitration.
Sec. 6. Be it further ordained, That in the use and
operation of said tracks, said Decatur Car Wheel and Manufacturing Company, its successors and assigns, shall conform to all of the ordinances of the City of Savannah now
existing or which may be hereafter adopted, regulating tire
use of railroad tracks laid in the streets of the City of Savannah and making it unlawful for railroad companies to
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permit their trains, cars or engines to remain stationary or
standing for any time on such streets, or to obstruct the
same; and, further, the said Decatur Car Wheel and Manufacturing Company shall not permit the said tracks to he
used as a storage place for cars, it being the intent and
meaning hereof that while the said company may use such
tracks for its own purposes, with cars, into and out of said
lot numbered one hundred and three (103), yet it shall not
leave the cars or engines used by it standing upon said
tracks, and all such cars and engines not in active use and
motion shall be left standing only within the limits of said
lot numbered one hundred and three (103), and shall in no
event obstruct said avenue or street.
The rights herein specified are granted upon the requirement that said company shall conform to all the provisions of this section, and upon non-conformity therewith
at any time this franchise and all rights hereunder shall
cease and be determined.
Sec. 7. Be it further ordained, That if, at any time,
there be any damage to persons or property by reason of
neglect of said Decatur Car Wheel and Manufacturing Company in the construction and, or maintenance and use of,
said tracks in said avenue and street, then, and in any such
event, the said company shall be bound to hold the Mayor
and Aldermen of the City of Savannah free and harmless
of such damages, and shall be required to defend, at its own
cost and expense, any suits brought based thereon; and the
requirements of this section shall apply equally to the successors and assigns of the said company.
See. 8. Be it further ordained, That in order to carry
out the intent and purposes of this ordinance it is required
that a duplicate agreement, to be prepared by the City Attorney, shall be executed by the parties hereto, the Mayor
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and Aldermen of the City of Savannah executing the same
by the Mayor or Acting Mayor, attested by the Clerk of
Council, with the corporate seal affixed, and the Decatur
Car Wheel and Manufacturing Company, through its executive officers, accepting this ordinance in all its -terms and
agreeing to conform thereto.
Sec. 9. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed April 11, 1906.
LandConveyance Under Tax Sale.
By the Committee of the Whole:
An ordinance touching lot numbered sixty-four (64),
Johuston "Ward, on the southeast corner of Wolfe and Paulsen streets, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, and directing
conveyance thereof under tax sales to be made by the City
Marshal to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, and quit-claim deed by the latter, to Walter W. Sheppard, and for other purposes:
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That it
appearing by the petition of Walter W. Sheppard that he
has become the purchaser of lot numbered sixty-four (64),
Johnston ward, Savannah, Georgia, under sheriff's title for
taxes, sold as the property of Charles J. Harris, and that
he desires to obtain title from the City of Savannah, which
has also heretofore sold said lot for taxes prior to the sale
made by the sheriff, the City Marshal is directed under the
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tax sales, or any of them, heretofore made by said official,
to convey the said lot to the Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of Savannah, by proper deed duly drawn by the City
Attorney, and to be framed as his best judgment requires;
and that thereupon, the said property shall be sold by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah to Walter
W. Sheppard, for the sum of seventy-four dollars and eleven
cents ($74.11), which last-named deed shall be executed on
behalf of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah
by the Mayor or Acting Mayor, attested by the Clerk of
Council, with the corporate seal affixed.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed
so far as this particular piece of property is concerned.
Ordinance passed April 25, 1906.
Streets and LanesPaving.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes:
An ordinance for the improvement of Whitaker street,
in the City of Savannah, from the south property line of
Gaston street to the north property line of Park avenue,
except the Gwinnett street intersection, under the terms
and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, and also under the terms and provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Georgia, entitled: "An act to provide for renewing or repairing any
pavement now laid or to be laid in any city of this State,
having a population over twenty thousand (20,000)," approved October 10, 1891, said last-named act being codified
in Section 724, of the Code of Georgia, and for other purposes.
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Whereas, at a meeting of the City Council of Savannah,
held February 14, 1906, certain resolutions were introduced
by the Committee of the Whole and adopted by Council,
touching the cobblestone pavement on Whitaker street in
this City, between the south property line of Gaston street
and the north property line of Park avenue, by the terms
of which resolutions the Director of Public Works and the
City Engineer, or Assistant City Engineer, were directed
to make a thorough and close examination of said cobblestone pavement on said portion of Whitaker street, so as
to ascertain its true condition and as to whether or not it
is worn to such an extent as to be no longer serviceable as
a good pavement, and these officers were directed to make a
detailed report to Council concerning such pavement and
their examination thereof; and,
Whereas, at a meeting of the City Council held on February 28, 1906, the said officers made their report to
Council, showing that they had made an examination of
said portion of Whitaker street and the cobblestone pavement thereon, and reported that said pavement is unsanitary
and worn to such an extent as to be no longer serviceable
as a good pavement; and,
Whereas, at the same meeting of Council said officers
were, in open Council, sworn and examined concerning their
said report, and Council at said meeting adopted resolutions
declaring, that, being fully informed in the premises by the
reports of said officers and by their testimony, as well as
by other evidence, the said cobblestone pavement on said
portion of Whitaker street is, in the judgment of Council,
unsanitary and is worn to such an extent as to be no longer
serviceable as a good pavement, and it is so determined;
and further declaring that said portion of Whitaker street
should be repaved, as soon as practicable, with vitrified
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brick, all members of Council present voting for the adoption of said last-named resolutions; and,
Whereas, the City of Savannah has a population of over
twenty thousand (20,000); therefore,
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the
terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, and also under the terms
and provisions of an act entitled: "An act to provide for
renewing or repairing any pavement now laid or to be laid
in any city of this State having a population of over twenty
thousand (20,000)," approved October 10, 1891, said lastnamed act being codified in section 724 of the Code of
Georgia, and it having been determined by Council that
the present cobblestone pavement on Whitaker street, between the south property line of Gaston street and the north
property line of Park avenue, is unsanitary and is worn
to such an extent as to be no longer serviceable as a good
pavement, so as to make the repaving of such portion of
said street necessary, that the Director of Public Works for
the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and
Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby, authorized and
directed to build and construct on Whitaker street, in the
City of Savannah, from the south property line of Gaston
street to the north property line of Park avenue, except
Gwinnett, an intersecting street which has been heretofore
paved, a roadway of vitrified brick twenty-seven (27) feet
in width between the curbing, said pavement at all streets
and lane intersections to extend over the full width of said
Whitaker street; that is to say, to lines coincident with the
respective property lines, except on Gwinnett, said intersecting street already paved; and they are authorized and
directed to lay the necessary curbing and to do all work
in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains,
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crossings and all other things incident to the construction
and completion of said roadway on said portion of Whitaker street.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That a street railroad
company having tracks running through said portion of
Whitaker street to be improved tinder this ordinance is
hereby required to pave the width of its track and two
feet on each side of every line of the tracks of said street
railroad company with vitrified brick, as the said work
progresses, and in the event this is not done by the said
company, the said Director of Public Works and the said
Committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said
railroad company.
Sec. 3. Be it farther ordained, That after the total cost
of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a street railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third (1-3)
of such total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury,
and the other two-thirds (2-3) by the persons owning at the
date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said portion of "Whitaker street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata
amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against
the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid,
according to frontage.
The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Whitaker street
to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of
this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and
shall pay from the City Treasury its just pro rata as such
owners of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in
addition to its one-third (1-3) of the entire cost, as hereinbefore provided.
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See. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the
said Director and the said Committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah, a statement
showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for,
and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds (2-3)
of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among
the several abutting parcels,"including the street and lane
interesections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel,
with the name of the owner.
Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement
and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah,
it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to send
to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the
same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if
such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after
the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become
the duty of the City Treasurer to issue executions for the
amount, together with cost against the persons and property
aforesaid, which executions shall be made and levied out
of the property described therein, as are executions for City
taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also
show the amount payable by any railroad company, arid
should such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same
thirty (30) days after the preesntation or sending of the
same, it shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to issue executions against said company and its property for said bill,
together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are
executions for City taxes.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, that all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed April 25, 1906.
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Streets and LanesPaving.
An ordinance for the improvement of West Broad
street, from the north property line of Indian street to the
south property line of Zubly street, in Savannah, Georgia,
under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature
of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887, and also under the terms
and provisions of an act of the'General Assembly of Georgia,
entitled, "An Act to provide for renewing or repairing any
pavement now laid or to be laid in any city of this State,
having a population over twenty thousand (20,000)," approved Oct. 10, 1891, said last-named act being codified in
section 724 of the Code of Georgia, and for other purposes,
"Whereas, at meeting of the City Council of Savannah,
held March 28, 1906, certain resolutions were introduced
by the Committee of the Whole and adopted by Council,
touching the cobblestone pavement on West Broad street in
this City, between the north property line of Indian street
and the south property line of Zubly street, by the terms of
which resolutions the Director of Public Works and the City
Engineer, or Assistant City Engineer, were directed to make
a thorough and close examination of the pavement of cobblestone on said portion of West Broad street, so as to ascertain
its true condition, and as to whether or not it is unsanitary
and worn to such an extent as to be no longer serviceable
as a good pavement, and these officers were further directed
to make a detailed report to Council concerning said pavement and their examination thereof; and,
Whereas, at a meeting of the City Council held on April
11, 1906, the said Director of Public Works and the said
Assistant City Engineer made their report to Council, showing that they had made an examination of said portion of
West Broad street and the cobblestone pavement thereon,
and reported that said pavement is unsanitary and worn to
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such" an extent as to be no longer serviceable as a good pavement; and,
Whereas, at the same meeting of Council, said officers
were, in open Council, sworn and examined concerning
their said report, and Council at said meeting adopted resolutions, declaring that, being fully informed in the premises
by the reports of said officers and by their testimony, as
well as by other evidence, the said cobblestone pavement
on said portion of West Broad street is, in the judgment of
Council, unsanitary and is worn to such an extent as to be
no longer serviceable as a good pavement, and it is so determined; and further declaring that said portion of West
Broad street should be repaved as soon as practicable with
vitrified brick, all members of Council present voting for the
adoption of said last-named resolution; and,
Whereas, the City of Savannah has a population of over
twenty thousand (20,000); therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of
the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms
and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887, and also under the terms and provisions
of an act entitled: "An act to provide for renewing or
repairing any pavement now laid or to be laid in any city
of this State, having a population of over twenty thousand
(20,000)," approved Oct. 10, 1891, said last-named act being codified in section 724 of the Code of Georgia, and it
having been determined by Council that the present cobblestone pavement on West Broad street, between the north
property line of Indian street and the south property line
of Zubly street, is unsanitary and is worn to such an extent
as to be no longer serviceable as a good pavement, so as to
make the repaving of such portion of said street necessary,
That the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah
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and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said City be, and
they are hereby, authorized and directed to build and construct on "West Broad street, in the City of Savannah, from
the north property line of Indian street to the south property
line of Zubly street, a roadway of vitrified brick fifty (50)
feet in width between the curbing, said pavement at all
street and lane intersections to extend over the full width of
said West Broad street; that is to say, to lines coincident
with the respective property lines, and they are authorized
and directed to do all the work necessary in the way of
grading, placing of catch basins, drains, crossings and all
other things incident to the construction and completion of
said roadway on said portion of "West Broad street, including
the laying of the necessary curbing.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That a street railroad
company having tracks running through said portion of
West Broad street to be improved under this ordinance, is
hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2)
feet on each side of every line of the tracks of said street
railroad company with vitrified brick, as the work progresses, and, in the event this is not done by said company,
the said Committee shall see to its being done at the expense
of said street railroad company.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the total
cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a street
railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third
(1-3) of such total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury,
and the other two-thirds (2-3) by the persons owning, at the
date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutfing on said portion of West Broad street to be improved
under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro
rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed
against the said abutting real estate, and its owners, as
aforesaid, according to frontage.
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The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed
as real estate abutting on said portion of West Broad street
to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purpose of this
ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall
pay from the City Treasury its just pro rata as such owner of
the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to
its one-third (1-3) of the entire cost, as hereinbefore provided.
See. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the
said Director and the said Committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showthe cost of the improvement herein provided for, and also
an assessment roll, showing as to two-thirds (2-3) of the cost
to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several
parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and
giving the sum chargeable to each parcel, with the name of
the owner.
Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement
and assessment roll by Council of the City of Savannah, it
shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to send to
the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same,
as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such
bill be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty
of the City Treasurer to issue execution for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which executions shall be made and levied out of the
property described therein, as are executions for City taxes.
The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the
amount payable by a street railroad company, and should
such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty
(30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it
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shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to issue execution
against said company and its property, for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are
executions for City taxes.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed May 9, 1906.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes:
An ordinance for the improvement of Gaston street
from the west property line of Jefferson street to the east
property line of West Broad street, in Savannah, Ga., under
the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of
Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the
terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia,
approved Oct. 1, 1887, That the Director of Public Works
for the City of Savannah, and the Committee on. Streets and
Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby, authorized and
directed to build and construct on Gaston street in the City
of Savannah, from the west property line of Jefferson street
to extend over the full width of said Gaston street; that is
vitrified brick, twenty-three (23) feet in width between
curbing, said pavement at all street and lane intersections
to extend over the full width of said Gaston street, that is
to say, to lines coincident with the respective property lines;
and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary
curbing and to do all the work necessary in the way of
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grading, placing of catch basins, drains, crossings, and all
other things incident to the contstruction and completion
of said roadway on said portion of Gaston street.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That after the total
cost of said work shall have been ascertained, one-third of
such total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury, and the
other two-thirds by the persons owning, at the date of the
adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said
portion of Gaston street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of
the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said
abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according
to frontage.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the
said Director and the said Committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for, and
also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost
to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several
abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections,
and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel, with the name
of the owner.
Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement
and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah,
it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to send
to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the
same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if
such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the
presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become
the duty of the City Treasurer to issue execution for the
amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied
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out of the property described therein, as are executions for
City taxes.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed May 9, 1906.
LandPurchase of Faifr around Tract.
By the Committee of the "Whole:
An ordinance to authorize the purchase, for public
uses, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah
from the owners thereof, of a certain tract of land in
Chatham County, Georgia, outside of corporate limits of
Savannah, known as the Fair Grounds Tract, containing
about seventy-eight and four-tenths (78.4) acres, lying just
to the east of "Waters avenue, south of Dale avenue, and
bounded on the east by Bee road, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That
purchase, for public uses, by the Mayor and Aldermen of
the City of Savannah, is hereby authorized, of that certain
tract or parcel of land in Chatham County, Georgia, outside of the corporate limits of the City of Savannah, containing about seventy-eight and four-tenths (78.4) acres,
formerly the property of the Merchants and Mechanics
Land Company, and sold by said last-named company on
March 5, 1904, to J. H. Estill, C. H. Doraett, Albert Wylly,
B. H. Levy, and G. H. Miller, by deed recorded in the
Clerk's office of the Superior Court of Chatham County,
Georgia, in Book of Deeds 8 T's, 207, said tract being the
property sometimes known as the Fair Ground Tract, lying
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just' to the east of Waters avenue, to the south of Dale
avenue, and to the west of the Bee road, and being more
particularly described as set out in said deed.
The said land being under option of purchase to Savannah Racing Association, and the said last-named association 'having offered this option to the Mayor and Aldermen 'of the City of Savannah, for the sum of fifteen
hundred dollars ($1,500), cash, the said sum of money is
directed to be paid out of the treasury of the City of
Savannah, when the titles to said property shall be arranged to the satisfaction of the City Attorney, to Savannah Racing Association, and further, when said City Attorney approves said titles, the Mayor and Aldermen of
the City of Savannah will pay to the owners of said property, upon the delivery of good and sufficient deed, the sum
of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to be expressed
in five (5) notes, to be made by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in the sum of five thousand dollars
($5,000) each, payable, respectively, one, two, three, four,
and five years after date of the same, said notes to bear
interest from date at the rate of five (5) per cent per annum,
payable annually.
See. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed June 6, 1906.
Confirming Purchase of Land.
By the Committee of the Whole
An ordinance to confirm the purchase by the Mayor
and Aldermen of the City of Savannah of certain lands
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in Chatham County, Georgia, outside of the corporate limits of Savannah, lying to the east of said City, for the
extension of Henry street, and to authorize the exchange
of certain land at the end of said Henry street extension,
where the same enters Moore avenue, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That the
purchase made by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
of Savannah of a strip of land in Chatham County, Georgia, outside of the corporate limits of Savannah, for the
opening and extension of Henry street, from Annie B.
Doyle, in October, 1905, as shown by her deed to the said
municipal corporation recorded in the Clerk's office of
the Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia, in Book
of Deeds 9 C's, folio 267, said deed being made in pursuance of a resolution adopted by the City Council of Savannah at its meeting held Sept. 13, 1905, is in all respects
approved and confirmed; and that the purchase made by
the said municipal corporation from Eufus E. Lester and
Henry and Isaac Meinhard of a certain strip of land in
said county, outside of the corporate limits of Savannah,
on the 23d of October, 1905, for the opening and extension of Henry street, as shown by deed from said parties
to said municipality, recorded in the Clerk's office of the
Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia, in Book of
Deeds 9 C's. folio 336, in pursuance of resolution adopted by
the City Council at its meeting held on September 13, 1905,
is in all respects approved and confirmed.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That inasmuch as the
said strip of land purchased from Annie E. Doyle extends
to the eastward and just before it enters Moore avenue,
formerly Thunderbolt road, deflects to the northeast, and
it is desirable that said Henry street shall extend to the
eastward in a direct line to Moore avenue, it is directed
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that -proper deeds of exchange be drawn by the City Attorney by which the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah shall quit-claim, convey, and release unto said
Annie E. Doyle so much of said strip originally purchased
from her as extends to the northeast just before it enters
Moore avenue, the said strip extending along Moore avenue
sixty-five (65) feet and being one hundred and four and twotenths (104.2) feet on its northwestern side, and twentyeight and seven-tenths (28.7) feet on its southeastern side,
embracing four thousand three hundred and nineteen and
twenty-five one-hundredths (4,319.25) square feet, as per
plat made by the City Engineer, and by wMch the said
Annie E. Doyle shall convey by warranty deed to the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah a certain
tract of land in said County, so as to extend Henry street
in a direct line to Moore avenue -eighty-seven and sixtenths (87.6) feet, and on its southern line one hundred
and seventy and eight-tenths (170.8) feet, and on its
northwestern side one hundred and one and ten onehundredths (101.10) feet, and on its northern side thirtyseven and nine-tenths (37.9) feet, said tract embracing
six thousand seven hundred and eighty-six (6,786) square
feet, as shown by plat made by the City Engineer, which
plat shall be attached to said deed. The said conveyance
to said Annie E. Doyle to be in consideration of the conveyance by her to the said municipality. The necessary
deeds to consummate this exchange are directed to be
executed on behalf of this municipality by the Mayor or
Acting Mayor, attested by the Clerk of Council, with the
corporate seal affixed.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed June 6, 1906.
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Sale of Land.
By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
An ordinance providing for the sale of a parcel of
land, being the northern portion uf lots thirty-nine and
forty, Reppard Ward, in this City, lying to th southward
of lot twenty, said ward, and to the northward of a lane,
to Charles Ellis, and for other purposes.
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Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That a
certain strip of land in Reppard Ward, in Savannah, Ga.,
being the northern portion of lots thirty-nin'e (39) and
forty (40), in Baid ward, which lie to the south of lot numbered twenty (20), in said ward, and to the northward
of a lane, said strip of land being forty-three and eighttenths (43.8) feet long from east to west, and being on
its western line twenty-four and two-jfcenths (24.2) feet
deep, and on its eastern line twenty-four and one-tenth
(24.1) feet deep, embracing ten hundred and fifty-seven and
seven-tenths (1,057.7) square feet, bounded north by lot
twenty (20) of said Ward, east by a portion of lot forty (40),
said Ward, south by a lane sixteen (16) feet wide, and west
by a portion of lot thirty-nine (39), said Ward, is directed to
be sold to Charles Ellis, at and for the price of four hundred
and fift^-four dollars and eighty-one cents ($454.81), to be
paid into the City Treasury.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That upon the payment
of the purchase price of said land, as aforesaid, deed of
this municipality conveying said land to said Charles
Ellis will be delivered to him, the said deed to be signed
on behalf of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah by the Mayor or Acting Mayor, with the corporate
seal affixed, attested by the Clerk of Council.
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Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance,
so far as said tract of land is concerned, are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed June 6,1906.
Grant of Land to King's Daughters.
By Committee of the Whole
An ordinance granting and confirming lot numbered
thirty-one (31), in Owens Ward, in Savannah, Ga., to
"Savannah Branch of the International Order of the King's
Daughters and Sons," on certain conditions; permitting said
grantee, under its changed name, "The Julia McLeod Chapter of the King's Daughters of Savannah, Ga.," to sell said
lot numbered thirty-one (31), in Owens Ward, to Savannah
Investment Company, cleared of conditions, provided said
last-named company shall convey lot numbered twenty-seven
(27), Lester Ward, Savannah, Ga., fronting on the east side
of Montgomery street thirty-two (32) feet, and running eastwardly in a rectangular parallelogram shape, one hundred
and ten (110) feet to an alley twenty (20) feet wide, being
bounded on the north by lot numbered twenty-six (26),
said Ward, and on the south by an alley fifteen (15) feet
wide, to said "The Julia McLeod Chapter of the King's
Daughters of Savannah, Ga.," with conditions as hereinafter prescribed, titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
deed made on the 21st day of [February, 1903, by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah to "Savan-
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nah Branch of the International Order of the King's
Daughters and Sons," conveying lot numbered thirty-one
(31), Owens Ward, Savannah, Ga., on certain conditions
therein named, said deed being recorded in the Clerk's
office of the Superior Court of Chatham Caunty, Georgia,
in Book of Deeds 8 S's, page 100, is in all respects confirmed, and said lot is granted and conveyed to said grantee on the conditions set out in the said deed.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That said grantee having changed its corporate name by order of the Superior
Court of Chatham County, Georgia, so that it is now
known as "The Julia McLeod Chapter of the King's
Daughters of Savannah, Ga.," said last-named corporation
is authorized and empowered to sell and convey said lot
numbered thirty-one (31), Owens "Ward, Savannah, Ga.,
to Savannah Investment Company, freed and cleared of
any and all conditions: Provided, however, That the Savannah Investment Company shall simultaneously convey
to "The Julia McLeod Chapter of the King's Daughters
of Savannah, Ga.," lot numbered twenty-seven (27), in
Lester Ward, in said City, said lot fronting on the east
side of Montgomery street thirty-two (32) 'feet and running eastwardly in a rectangular parallelogram shape one
hundred and ten (110) feet to an alley twenty (20) feet
wide, and being bounded north by lot numbered twentysix (26), said ward, south by an alley fifteen (15) feet
wide, with these words of conditions inserted in the deed,
to-wit: "Said lot numbered twenty-seven (27), Lester
"Ward, Savannah, Ga., is hereby conveyed, upon condition
that it is to be held and enjoyed by said grantee exclusively for purposes of a day nursery and home for the
children of Savannah, and for such other charitable uses
as come within the true purview and scope of the corporate objects and powers of said grantee, and should
said lot ever cease to be used for such uses and purposes,
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it shall at once be and become the property of the Mayor
and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, a municipal corporation of Georgia, with the right, however, in and to
said grantee, in such event, to remove the improvements
thereon.within ninety (90) days," such deed to be drawn
in such terms as the City Attorney shall approve.
See. 3. Be it further ordained, That, all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed so far as said lots numbered thirty-one (31), Owens Ward, and twenty-seven (27), Lester "Ward, are
concerned.
Ordinance passed June 19, 1906.
Paving Streets and Lanes.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes
An 'ordinance for the improvement of Gaston street
from; the west property line of Price street to the east
property line of Jefferson street, in Savannah, Ga., under
the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of
Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887, and alo under the terms
and provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Georgia, entitled "An act to provide for renewing or repairing
any pavement now laid or to be laid in any city of this
State, having a population over twenty thousand (20,000),"
approved Oct. 10, 1891, said last-named act being codified
in section 724 of the Code of Georgia, and for other purposes.
"Whereas, at a meeting of the City Council of Savannah, held March 28, 1906, certain resolutions were introduced by the Committee 'of the Whole touching the shell
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pavement on Gaston street in this City between Price and
Jefferson streets, by the terms of which resolution the
Director of Public Works and the City Engineer or Assistant City Engineer were directed to make a thorough
and close examination, of the pavement of shell on said
portion of Gaston street, so as to ascertain its true condition, and as to whether or not it is worn to such an
extent as to be no longer serviceable as a good pavement,
and these officers were further directed to make a detailed
report to Council concerning such pavement and their examination thereof; and,
"Whereas, At a meeting of the City Council held on
April 11, 1906, the said Director of Public Works and
the said Assistant City Engineer made their report to
Council, showing that they had made an examination of
said portion of Gaston street, between Price and Jefferson streets, and the shell pavement thereon, and reported
that said pavement is unsanitary and worn to such an
extent as to be no longer serviceable as a good pavement;
and,
Whereas, At the same meeting of Council said officers
were, in open Council, sworn and examined concerning
their said report, and Council at said meeting adopted
resolutions, declaring that, being fully informed in the
premises by the reports of said officers and by their testimony, as well as by other evidence, the said shell pavement on said portion of Gaston street is worn to such an
extent that it is no longer serviceable as a good pavement,
and it is so determined, and further declaring that said
portion of Gaston street should be repaved as soon as
practicable with such material as Council might thereafter
designate, and members of Council present voting for the
adoption of said last-named resolution; and,
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Whereas, The City of Savannah has a population of
over twenty thousand (20,000) j therefore,
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the
terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887, and also under the terms and
provisions of an act entitled, "An act to provide for renewing or repairing any pavement now laid or to be
laid in any city in this State having a population over
twenty thousand (20,000)," approved Oct. 10, 1891, said
last-named act being codified in section 724 of the Code
of Georgia, and it having been determined by Council that
the present shell pavement on Gaston street, between the
west property line of Price street and the east property
line of Jefferson street, is worn to such an extent as to
be no longer serviceable as a good pavement, so as to
make the repaving of such portion of said street necessary,
That the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said City
be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to build
and construct on Gaston street in the City of Savannah,
from the west property line of Price street to the east
property line of Jefferson street, except Drayton and
Whitaker, intersecting streets which have been heretofore
paved, a roadway of asphalt blocks, thirty (30) feet in
width between curbing, from Price street to west side of
Tattnall street, and twenty-three (23) feet in width between curbing from west side of Tattnall street to the
present pavement 'on Jefferson street, said pavement at all
street and lane intersections to extend over the full width
of Gaston streetthat is to say, to lines coincident with
the respective property lines except on Drayton and Whitaker streets, said intersecting streets already paved; and
they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary
curbing, and to do all the work in the way of grading,
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the placing of catch-basins, drains, crossings, and all other
things incident to the construction and completion of said
roadway on said portion of Gaston street.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That a railroad company having tracks running through said portion of Gaston street to be improved under this ordinance is hereby
required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet
on each side of every line of tracks of the said railroad
company with asphalt blocks as the said work progresses,
and in the event that this is not done by the said company,
the said Director of Public Works and the said Committee
shall see to its being done at the expense of the said
street railroad company.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That separate accounts
shall be kept and separate assessments made for the improvement between Price and Tattnall streets and that
between Tattnall and Jefferson streets, and that after the
total cost of the said work, exclusive of that done by or
for a street railroad company, shall have been ascertained,
one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the City
Treasury and the other two-thirds by the persons owning,
at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real
estate abutting on said portion of Gaston street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and
the pro rata amount of the cost [of such work is hereby
assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting
on said portion of Gaston street to be improved, and the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all
the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of
the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the City
Treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of said
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work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third
of the entire cost, as hereinbefore provided.
See. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement heereinbefore provided for has been completed, the
said Director and the said Committee shall prepare and
submit to the Council of the City of Savannah two statements (one for the part of Gaston street between Price
and Tattnall and the other for the part between Tattnall
and Jefferson, showing the cost of the improvement herein
provided for, and also two assessment rolls showing as to
two-tKirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the
street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel, with the name of the owner.
Upon the consideration and adoption of the said
statements and assessment rolls by the Council of the City
of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the City
Treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their
proper bill for the same as it may be ascertained by the
City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within
thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the
same, it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer
to issue an execution for the amount, together with costs,
against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described
therein as are executions for City taxes. The said statement and assessment rolls shall also show the amount payable by a street railroad company, and should such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same within thirty
(30)'days after the presentation or sending of the same,
it shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill,
together with costs, which shall be made and levied as
are 'executions for City taxes.
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Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed June 19,1906.
Paving Streets and Lanes.
By Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance to amend an ordinance, entitled "An
ordinance for the improvement of West Broad street from
the north property line of Indian street to the south property
line of Zubly street, in Savannah, Ga., under the terms and
provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved
October 1, 1887, and also under the terms and provisions of
an act of the General Assembly of Georgia, entitled, "An
act to provide for renewing or repairing any pavement now
laid or to be laid in any city of this State having a population over twenty thousand (20,000)," approved October 10,
1891; said last-named act codified in section 724 of the Code
of Georgia, and for other purposes, adopted May 9, 1906,
by changing the width of the pavement from fifty to sixtysix feet, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
words and figures in the first section of the said ordinance
set out in the caption, namely fifty (50) feet, are hereby
stricken out, and in lieu thereof the words sixty-six (66)
feet are hereby inserted so that the roadway of vitrified
brick provided for in said first section shall be sixty-six
feet in width, between the curbing, and said ordinance of
May 9, 1906, is in all other respects confirmed.
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Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be,
and the same are hereby, repealed.
Ordinance passed July 6, 1906.
Paving Streets and Lanes.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes
ordinance for the improvement of a portion of
Lincoln street, from the south curb line of Bay street to
the north curb line of Bryan street, in Savannah, Georgia,
under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature
of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the
terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887, that the Director of Public
Works for the City of Savannah, and the Committee on
Streets and Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby,
authorized and directed to build and construct on Lincoln street, in the City of Savannah, from the south curb
line of Bay street to the north curb line of Bryan street,
a roadway of vitrified brick, twenty-seven (27) feet between the curbing, said pavement at all lane intersections
to extend over the full width of said Lincoln street; that
is to say, to lines coincident with the respective property
litres- and they are authorized and directed to lay the
necessary curbing, and to do all the work in the way of
grading, the placing of catch-basins, drains, crossings, and
all other things incident to the construction and completion of the said roadway on said portion of Lincoln street.
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Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That after the total
cost of said work shall have been ascertained, one-third
(1-3) of such total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury, and the other two-thirds (2-3) by the persons owning,
at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate
abutting on said portion of Lincoln street to be improved
under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata
amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against
the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid,
according to frontage.
The frontage of an intersecting lane is assessed as real
estate abutting on said portion of Lincoln street to be
improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah shall be, for all intents and purposes of this
ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and
shall pay from the City treasury its just pro rata as such
owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage,
in addition to its one-third rof the entire cost, as hereinbefore provided.
See. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed,
the said Director and the said Committee shall prepare
and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement hereinbefore
provided for, and also an assessment roll showing as to
two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned am:ong the several abutting parcels, including the
lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each
parcel, with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll
by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to send to the abutting
property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may
be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent
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be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation
or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of
the City Treasurer to issue execution for said amount,
togeether with costs, against the persons and property
aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out
of the property described therein as are executions for
City taxes.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in. conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed July 18,1906.
Punishment for Violations of Ordinances.
By the Committee of the Whole
An ordinance to provide proper punishment for the
violation -of ordinances which may have by the City Council of Savannah been heretofore, or which may be hereafter
adopted, lacking punishment prescribed therein, respectively, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That as
to all ordinances, which have been heretofore, or which
may be hereafter, adopted by the City Council of Savannah, lacking any provision for punishment for the violation of same, respectively, punishment is hereby provided
to apply to each and all of such ordinances; that is to say,
each and every offense committed under such ordinances,
and each and every violation of the same shall be punished
in the Police Court of the City of Savannah by a fine not
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exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars or imprisonment not
exceeding thirty (30) days, either or both, in the discretion
of the court.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed July 18, 1906.
FeesAbolished in Clerk of Court's Office.
By Alderman Dixon:
An ordinance to require all fees of office, now or hereafter prescribed by ordinance, to be paid to the Clerk of
Council, and, or to the Clerk of the Police Court, whether
the latter by the Clerk of Council' or other person, for
services rendered by such officials, to be paid into the City
Treasury, and to limit the compensation of such officials to
their respective salaries, as may be prescribed by law, and
for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That
from and after the passage of this ordinance, all fees of
office, now or hereafter prescribed by ordinance to be
paid to the Clerk of Council, and, or to the Clerk of the
Police Court of this City, whether the latter official be the
Clerk of Council, or other person, for services rendered by
such officials, respectively, shall by such officials be
promptly paid into the City Treasury, as, and when received,
in accordance with law; and a correct daily record shall be
kept by such officials of such fees collected, showing names
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of p'ersons paying, amounts for each, service rendered, and
disposition of same. Such fees so collected shall be and
remain the property of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
of Savannah.
See. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Clerk of Council
and the Clerk of the Police Court, whether latter be the
Clerk of Council, or other person, shall hereafter receive no
other compensation or pay, except the regular salaries for
said officials, as same may be prescribed by ordinance.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That any breach of the
requirements of this ordinance by said officials, respectively, shall be deemed misconduct in office, and shall be
sufficient ground for the removal from dffiee of such offending official.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict are repealed.
Ordinance passed Aug. 1, 1906.
Payment of Salaries of City Officers.
By Alderman Dixon
An ordinance regulating the payment of salaries and
wages of all City officers and employes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
salaries of City officials and all employes of the City who
have been heretofore paid monthly, shall in the future be
payable in equal payments twice a month, which amount
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shall become due and payable on the fifteenth and last days
of each month, and the wages of all other employes of the
City of Savannah which accrue from day to day, shall become due and payable on the fifteenth and last days of
each month; all such payments shall be made from the City
Treasury accordingly: Provided, however, That in the
months of January and July of each year the payments of
which would become due on the fifteenth shall become due
and payable on the eighteenth day of said months, respectively.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and
parts of ordinance^ in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed August 1, 1906.
Sale of Lands.
By the Committee on Opening Streets and City Lots
An ordinance providing for the sale of a parcel of land,
being in the northern portions of lots forty-one (41) and
forty (40), Reppard Ward, in this City, lying to the southward of lots -seventeen (17) and eighteen (18), said ward,
and to the northward of a lane, to Nellie T. Frierson, and
for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That a certain strip of land, in Reppard Ward, in Savannah, Ga., being the northern portions of lots forty-one (41) and forty
(40), in said ward, which lie to the southward of lots numbered seventeen (17) and eighteen (18), said Ward, and
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to the northward of a lane, said strip of land being seventyfour and six-tenths (74.6) feet long from east to west, and
being twenty-four and five-tenths (24.5) feet wide on its
eastern and western lines, embracing eighteen hundred and
twenty-seven and seven-tenths (1,827.7) square feet, and
bounded north by lots seventeen (17) and eighteen (18),
of said ward; east by Ahercorn street; south by a lane
sixteen (16) feet wide, and west by a portion of lot numbered forty (40), said ward, is directed to be sold to Nellie
T. Prierson, at and for the price of eight hundred ($800)
dollars, to be paid into the City treasury.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That upon the payment
of the purchase price of said amount, as aforesaid, warranty
ded of this municipality, conveying said land to said Nellie T. Frierson, will be delivered to her, the said deed to be
signed on behalf of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
of Savannah, by the Mayor or Acting Mayor, with the corporate seal affixed, attested by the Clerk of Council.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with thils ordinance, so far
as this tract of land is concerned, are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed August 1, 1906.
Streets and LanesStatement and Assessment Bolls.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance to establish the official statement and
assessment roll touching the improvement of a portion of
Price street, from the south property line of Gaston street
to the north property line of Gwinnett street, in the Ctiy
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of Savannah, as made under an ordinance of the City of
Savannah, passed Feb. 28, 1906.
Section 1. Bs it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the
Director of Public Works for the City-of Savannah and the
Committee on Streets and Lanes of said City, made under
an ordinance passed Feb. 28. 1906, and entitled, "An ordinance for the improvement of Price street, from the south
property line of Gaston street to the north property line of
Gvrinnett street, in the City of Savannah, under the terms
and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887," be, and they are hereby, declared to
be tbje official statement and assessment rolls of said improvement under said ordinance; the said statement and
assessment roll being that entitled, "Statement and assessment roll for paving Price street. Statement showing the
cost of improvements to Price street, in the City of Savannah. Ga., beginning at the south property line of Gaston
street, and extending to the north property line of Gwinnett street, as under an ordinance of the City of Savannah,
passed Feb. 28, 1906, with an assessment roll showing as
to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the
several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable
to each parcel, with the names of the owners," and the
Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed
to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of
this date and to enter the sama on the minutes of Council
for due authentication and preservation.
Sec. 2. Be it farther ordained, That the treasurer 'of
the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and
send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts
due by them, as provided for by said ordinance. Should the
said bills be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date
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of the bill, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue
executions as provided for by said ordinance, which shall
be mads and levied as are executions for City, taxes.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed August 1,1906.
Burglar Alarm and District Tel. Co.
By Alderman Davant
An ordinance granting the Burglar Alarm and District
Telegraph Company, its successors or assigns, the right to
place and maintain poles, wires, and fixtures on the streets,
alleys and public ways of the City of Savannah. State of
Georgia, x>n the terms and conditions hereinafter stated.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, Ga., That the Burglar Alarm and
District Telegraph Company, its successors or assigns, is
hereby authorized to construct, maintain and operate upon
the streets, alleys, and public ways of said City, the poles,
wire and fixtures necessary for supplying the public a fira,
night watch, burglar alarm and dictrict service, upon the
terms and conditions hereinafter stated.
See. 2. The location of the poles and lines now in use
is hereby approved; and the location of all poles and lines
hereafter to be erected, and any change in the location of
the poles and lines now in use, or extensions thereof, shall
be under the direction and control of the Committee of said
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah.
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Sec. 3. Said poles and wirels (shall be placed and maintained so as not to interfere with travel on said highway,
and said company, its successors and assigns, shall hold
said Mayor and Aldermen free and harmless from all damages? arising by reason of any abuse of said occupancy. This
grant is made, and is to be enjoyed, subject to such reasonable regulations and ordinances of a police nature as said
City is authorized and sees proper to adopt.
Sec. 4. The right of use herein given shall not be 'exclusive, and said City reserve*; the power to grant a like
right to any other telegraph company, the same, however,
not to interfere with the reasonable and proper exercise of
the privileges herein granted.
Sec. 5. In consideration whereof, said Burglar Alarm
and District Telegraph Company, its successors and assigns,
shall, and by the acceptance of this ordinance does agree
to allow said City to attach at any time to the top crossarm of any of its poles, where practicable, the City fire
alarm and police wires, and 'said poles are hereby made a
municipal instrumentality for that purpose: Provided, however, said attachment shall be made as not to interfere
with their use by said company, its successors or assigns,
and said attachment^ shall be made and maintained under
the directions of the manager of said company, its successors
or assigns. The said company, its successors or assigns,
shall and will furnish for the said City the use of its poles
for the attachment thereto of its fire alarm boxes.
Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect on and after
its passage, and the filing by said company, for itself, its
successors or assigns, of a written acceptance thereof, and
shall be and continue in force and effect for the term of
twenty-five years from and after its passage.
Sec. 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinances, orders
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and resolutions, upon the subject of telegraph poles, wires,
etc.. of previous date conflicting with the provision of this
ordinance are thereby repealed and annulled.
Ordinance passed August 29, 1906.
Hewitt Detective Service and Police Patrol and Burglar
Alarm.
By Alderman Canty
An ordinance granting the Hewitt Detective Service,
Police Patrol and Burglar Alarm, its successors or assigns,
the right to place and maintain poles, wires and fixtures
on the streets, alleys, and public ways of the City of Savannah, State of Georgia, on the terms and conditions hereinafter stated.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, Ga., That the Hewitt Detective
Service, Police Patrol and Burglar Alarm, its successors or
assigns, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain and
operate upon the streets, alleys and public ways of said
City the poles, wires and fixtures necessary for supplying
the public a fire, night watch, burglar alarm and district
service upon the terms and conditions hereinafter stated.
Sec. 2. The location of the poles and lines now in
is hereby approved, and the location of all poles and lines
hereafter to be erected, -and any change in the location of
the poles and lines now in use, or extensions thereof, shall
be under the direction and control of the committee of said
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah.
Sec. 3. Said poles and wires shall be placed and maintained so as not to interfere with travel on said high-
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ways, and said company, its successors and assigns, shall
hold said Mayor and Aldermen free and harmless from all
damages arising by reason of any abuse of said occupancy.
This grant is made and" is to be enjoyed subject to such
reasonable regulations and ordinances of a police nature
as said City is authorized and sees proper to adopt.
Sec. 4. The right of use her.ein granted shall not be
exclusive, and said City reserves the power to grant a like
right to any other telegraph company, the same, however,
not to interfere with the reasonable and proper exercise of
the privileges herein granted.
See. 5. In consideration whereof said Hewitt Detective
Service, Police Patrol and Burglar Alarm, its successors
and assigns, shall and by the acceptance of this ordinance
does agree to allow said City to attach at any time to the
top cross-arm of any of its poles, where practicable, the
City fire alarm and police wires, and said poles are hereby
made a municipal instrumentality for the purpose: Provided, however, said attachments shall be made so as not
to interfere with their use by said company, its successors
or assigns, and said attachments shall be made and maintained under the directions of the manager of said company,
its successors or assigns. The said company, its successors
or assigns, shall and will furnish for the said City the use
of its poles for the attachment thereto of its fire alarm and
police boxes.
Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect on and after
i1p passage and the filing by said company for itself, its
successors or assigns, of a written acceptance thereof, and
shall be and continue in force and effect for the term of
twenty-five years from and after its passage.
See. 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinances, orders
and resolutions upon the subject of telegraph poles, wires,
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etc.. of- previous date conflicting with the provision of this
ordinance are hereby repealed and annulled.
Ordinance passed August 29, 1906.
Unlawful for Minors to Board Locomotives and Street Cars
While in Motion.
By Alderman Dixon
An ordinance to make it unlawful for any minor to
get on or off any locomotive or car while the same is in
motion, within the corporate limits of Savannah, prescribing punishment therefor, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled. That from
and after the adoption of this ordinance it shall be unlawful for any minor to get on or off any locomotive or car
(whether railroad or street car) within the limits of the
City of Savannah, Ga., while such locomotive or car is in
motion.
Any minor violating the provisions of this ordinance
shall be punished, if convicted before the Police Court of
the City of Savannah, by a fine for each and every such
offense of not less than five (5) dollars, and not more than
twenty-five (25) dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed
twenty (20) days, either or both, in the discretion of the
Court.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances an!
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed August 29, 1906.
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Street CarsSeparation of Races.
By Aldermen Grayson and Stewart
An ordinance regulating, requiring and providing for
the furnishing of separate accommodations and the separation of white and colored passengers on street cans.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
of Savannah, in Council assembled:
Section 1. That all companies, persons, firms and associations operating street cars in the City of Savannah are
hereby required to furnish separate accommodations for
white and colored passengers, and all white and colored
passengers occupying peats in street cars in the City of
Savannah are hereby required to occupy the respective ears
or divisions of cars provided for th,em, so that the white
passengers shall occupy only the cars, or divisions of cars,
provided for white passengers, and the colored passengers
shall occupy only the cars, or divisions of cars, provided
for the accommodation of colored passengers. All companies, firms, persons and associations operating street cars
in the City of Savannah shall furnish such separate accommodations, at their option, by the operation together of two
or more cars, providing separate cars for white passengers
and separate cars for colored passengers, or by furnishing
separate accommodations for white and colored passengers
in the same car. When separate accommodation is furnished for white and colored passengers in the same car,
the front part of the ear shall be designated for white
passengers and the rear part of the car for colored passengers. "When two or more cars are operated together, thus
providing separate car or cars for white passengers and
separate ear or cars for colored passengers, the front car
or cars shall be designated for white passengers and the
rear car or cars for colored passengers. The cars, or parts
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of ears, furnished for white and for colored passengers,
respectively, shall have placed conspicuously at each end
of the car, or part of car, signs in plain letters, not less than
two inches high, indicating by the words "white" or "colored," as the case may be, that such car, or part of car,
is provided for the use of white passengers or colored
passengers, as the case may be; and when open care to
be entered from the side of the car are provided for the
accommodation of both white and colored passengers, additional such signs shall be provided and placed conspicuously
on the pide of the cars so as to indicate thereby the portion
of the ear to be used by white and colored passengers,
respectively.
Any officer, agent or employe of any company, person
or firm, who shall as superintendent or other officer of such
company, or as conductor, motorman of other employe of
such company, operate any car not so provided with signs
on the streets of the City of Savannah for the transportation of passengers, shall upon conviction thereof be fined
not more than $100, or by imprisonment not more than
thirty days, for each such offense; and any white person
wilfully occupying as a passenger any car or part of car
not so set apart and provided for white passengers, and
any colored person wilfully occupying as a passenger any
ear or part of car not so set apart and provided for colored
passengers, shall be deemed guilty of disorderly condnuct
and shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100 or by
imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.
Sec. 2. It is hereby made the duty of conductors, motormen and others engaged in the operation of street cars
within the limits of the City of Savannah to call the attention of passengers to such signs and to the fact that separate provision is made for white and colored passengers!,
and to request white and colored passengers who are about
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to enter, or who have entered cars, or divisions of cars, not
intended for their accommodation to occupy only the cars
or divisions of cars provided for their accommodation;
and that if any such passenger refuses or fails to leave the
car, or part of car, not intended for their accommodation,
to occupy only the cars or divisions of cars provided for
their accommodation; and that if any such passenger refuse
or fail to leave the car, or part of car, not provided for his
or her accommodation, such conductor, motorman or other
person operating such car shall notify the police department, or a member thereof, as soon as it is possible.
Sec. 3. Any police officer of the City of Savannah
seeing any white or colored passenger occupying a car or
part of car not provided for his or her accommodation, as
indicated by such signs, shall arrest any such person and
take him or her to the police station as in case of any other
person guilty of disorderly conduct.
Sec. 4. Special cars, in addition to the regular schedule cars, may at any time be run for the exclusive accommodation of either white or colored passengers for special
occasions or special business.
Ssc. 5. Any person wilfully molesting, removing,
mutilating or destroying any sign put or placed on any car
in compliance with the terms of this ordinance, and while
such car is being operated for the transportation of passengers, shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, and upon conviction be punished by fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.
See. 6. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed September 12, 1906.
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Regulating Sale of Ice.
By Alderman Grayson
An ordinance to regulate the sale of ice within the
corporate limits of the City of Savannah, and for other
purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled. That it shall
be unlawful for any psrson, firm or corporation -engaged
in selling ice within the corporate limits of the City of Savannah, Georgia, to sell, or offer for sale, Ice to any one
within such limits, whether at the vendor's place of business,
or from delivery wagons, or otherwise, except when required by the buyer or his or her servant or agent, by
weight, to be dtily ascertained in the presence of such buyer
or his or her agent or servant, at the time of delivery, and
by or upon true and correct scales, to be provided by said
vendor. Such true and correct scales to be used, if demanded,
in weighing ice on delivery, shall be on hand in every delivery wagon, or wherever ice shall be sold and delivered.
It shall be unlawful for any such dealer in ice, his
clerk or driver of delivery wagon, to deliver to any one
who may purchase ice at retail a quantity less than that
sold, and it shall also be unlawful for any such dealer, his
clerk or driver of delivery wagon, to refuse to sell ice at
retail for cash, to any one desiring to buy the same and who
may demand that it be weighed at the time of delivery.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained. That any dealer in ice,
person, firm or corporation, or clerk or driver of delivery
wagon of the same, who shall fail or refuse to comply with
this ordinance in any particular, and shall be convicted before the Police Court of the City of Savannah on any such
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charge, shall be punished for each and every such offense
by a fine not exceeding fifty (50) dollars, or imprisonment
not exceeding twenty (20) days, either or both, in the discretion of the Court.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed September 12, 1906.
Director of Public WorksDefining Duties, Etc.
By Alderman Stewart
An ordinance to amend an ordinance to provide for
the office of Director Public Works and Improvements for
the City of Savannah, to define his powers and duties, to
fix his salary, provide for a clerk, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
third section of the ordinance named in the caption, which
was passed March 8, 1899, is hereby amended in the portion
thereof which relate(3 to the compensation of the clerk of
the Director of Public Works, by striking out the words
"at the rate of $1,200 per annum" and by substituting in
lieu thereof the words, "such as may be fixed by the Director of Public Works, with the approval of the Finance
Committee;" so that the sentence referred to in said section shall read as follows: "The said Clerk shall receive
a salary such as may be fixed by the Director of Public
Works, with the approval of the Finance Committee, and
shall be subject to discharge at any time," etc., as pre-
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scribed in. said ordinance, the object hereof being to eliminate
the fixing of said salary by ordinance, and to make the said
salary such as may be proper for the recipient thereof, in
the judgment of the Director of Public Worke and the
Finance Committee. This change in the ordinance to relate
back to the date of the passage thereof, it having been
found inexpedient to fix the salary of clerks in ordinances.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all 'ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed September 12, 1906.
PawnbrokersRelating to Sale of Gunpowder, Etc.
By Committee of the Whole
An ordinance for the regulation of pawnbrokers, prohibiting the sale by them, within the limits of Savannah.
Ga., of gunpowder, cartridges, guns, pistols and -other firearms, under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That from
and after the adoption of this ordinance, whenever the
Mayor of this City shall have served written notice upon
any pawnbroker doing business in the City of Savannah,
Ga., directing him not to sell, give away or dispose of any
gunpowder, cartridges, guns, pistols or other firearms, to
any peuson, within the period named in such notice, except
such sale, gift or other disposition of such articles shall have
been first approved in writing by the Mayor of this City,
then it phall be the duty of such pawnbroker, so notified,
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to retain in his possession any such gunpowder, cartridges,
guns, pistols or other firearms, -which he may have at the
time of the reception of such notice, and to sell, give away
or dispose of the same only with the written approval of
such Mayor in each instance, as specified herein.
Sec. 2. Be it farther ordained, That in order to effectually carry out the provisions of this ordinance, it shall be
the duty of each and every pawnbroker, so notified by the
Mayor as above, to admit to his or her premises the superintendent of police or any officer or member of the police
force of the City of Savannah, who may desire at any time
to search for any such gunpowder, cartridges, guns, pistols
or other firearms, without the formality of a search warrant, and such superintendent, officer and member of police
force shall have the right to thoroughly inspect the premises of such pawnbroker, and his books, at any time, and
all such articles shall be openly displayed, so that inspection can be easily made.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained. That any such pawnbroker, notified as above, who may violate the provisions
of this ordinance, shall, for each and every such violation,
be punished, upon conviction before the Police Court of
the City of Savannah, by imprisonment not exceeding
thirty (30) days, and by a fine not exceeding one hundred
(100) dollars, either or both, in the discretion of the Court.
In addition to the foregoing punishment, the Mayor ishall
be, and is hereby, authorized to cite any such pawnbroker
charged with the violation of this ordinance before him,
and upon hearing had, he shall have the power to revoke
the license of such pawnbroker if he shall find that he or
she has violated any of the provisions rof this ordinance;
such revocation of license, however, to be no exemption
from the punishment prescribed in this ordinance before
the Police Court.
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Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed September 26, 1906.
Dedicating and Naming Dixon Park..
By Alderman Grayson
An ordinance declaring the land recently purchased by
th3 Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah from
Realty Improvement and Trust Company a public park,
naming the same, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of ths City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
land purchased by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
of Savannah from Realty Improvement and Trunt Company
on July 14, 1906, being located in the City of Savannah,
Georgia, and known upon the map or plan of said City as
lots numbered seventeen (17) to thirty-two (32), both inclusive, in section nine (9), in Waring "Ward, said land
being more particularly described in the deed made on said
date to said grantee, which deed is recorded in the Clerk's
office of the Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia,
in Book of Deeds 9 G's, page 372, be, and the same is hereby,
dedicated as a public park for the uses and benefits of the
people of Savannah.
See. 2. Be it further ordained. That said park shall
be hereafter known and designated as "Dixon Park," in
honor of Hon. James M. Dixon, Chairman of Council of the
City of Savannah.
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Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be, and
the same are hereby, repealed.
Ordinance passed September 26, 1906.
Paving Streets and Lanes.
By Committee on Streets and Lanen
An ordinance for the improvement of Abercorn street,
from the south property line of Gaston street to the north
property line of Hall street, under the terms and provisions
of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October
1, 1887.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That under
the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1,1887, that the Director of Public "Works
for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and
Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby, authorized and
directed to build and construct on Abercorn street, in the
City of Savannah, from the south property line of Gaston
street to the north property line on Hall street, a roadway
of vitrified brick forty-five (45) feet in width between the
curbing, said pavement at all street and lane intersections
to extend over the full width of Abercorn street; that is to
say, to lines coincident with the respective property lines,
and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary
curbing and do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings and all other things
incident to the construction and completion of said roadway
on said portion of Abercorn street.
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Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That a street railroad
company having tracks running through said portion of
Abercorn street to be improved under this ordinance is
hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two feet
on each side of every line of the tracks of said street railroad company with vitrified brick as the work progresses,
and in the event this is not done by said company the said
Director of Public "Works and the said Committee shall
see to its being done at the expense of said street railroad
company.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost
of said work, 'exclusive -of that done by or for a street railroad company, shall have besu ascertained, one-third (1-3)
of such total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury and
the other two-thirds (2-3) by the persons owning, at the
date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said portion of Abercorn street to be improved
under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro
rata amount rof the cost of such work is hereby assessed
against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as
aforesaid, according to frontage.
The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed
as real estate abutting on said portion of Abercorn street to
be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah shall be, for all intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shali
pay from the City Treasury its just pro rata, as such owner,
of the cost of said work, according to frontage, in addition
ti its one-third of the entire costs, as hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 4. Ba it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the
said Director and the said Committee shall prepare and
submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement,
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showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for,
and also an assessment roll, showing as to two-thirds (2-3)
of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among
the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane
intersection*;, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel,
with the name of the owner.
Upon the consideration and adoption of said 'statement
and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah,
it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to send
to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the
same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if
such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after
the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to issue 'executions for
the amount, together with costs, against the persona and
property aforesaid, which executions chall be made and
levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for City taxes. The said statement and assessment
roll shall also show the amount payable by any street railroad company, and should such company fail or refuse to
pay a bill for the same thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the City
Treasurer to issue executions against said company and
its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall
be made and levied as are executions for City taxes.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed September 26, 1906.
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Paving Streets and Lanes.
By Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance for the improvement of York street, from
the west property line of Bull street to the east property
line of Whitaker street, in the City of Savannah, under the
terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia,
approved October 1, 1887..
Section. 1. Be it ordained, by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the
terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia,
approved October 1, 1887, That the Director of Public
"Works of the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets
and Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby, authorized
and directed to build and construct on York street, in the
City of Savannah, from the west property line of Bull street
to the east property line of Whitaker street, a roadway of
asphalt blocks, twenty-two (22) feet in width between the
curbing, and they are authorized and directed to lay the
necessary curbing and to do all the work in the way of
grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings, and
all other things incident to the construtcion and completion
of the said roadway on said portion of York street.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost
of said work shall have been ascertained, one-third of such
total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury and the other
two-thirds from the persons owning, at the date of the
adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said
portion of York street to be improved under this ordinance,
according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost
of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting
real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage.
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Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the
Director of Public "Works for the City of Savannah and said
Committee on Streets and Lanes shall prepare and submit
to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing
the cost of the improvement hereinbefore provided for, and
also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost
to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several
abutting parcels, and giving the sum chargeable to each
parcel, with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration
and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the
Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the
duty of the City Treasurer to send to the abutting property
owners their proper bill for the same as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not
paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the City
Treasurer to issue an execution for the amount, together
with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which
execution shall be made and levied out of the property
described therein, as are executions for City taxes.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed October 10, 1906.
Plumbing' InspectorAmend of Ordinance.
By Alderman Davant
An ordinance to amend an ordinance adopted January
3, 1906, entitled, "An ordinance touching and regulating
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the appointment of inspector of plumbing in and for Savannah, <3a., his oath, bond, duties, discharge and other matters germane to said office, and for other purposes," by
requiring that the inspector of plumbing shall be a practical plumber, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That
the ordinance named in the above caption be, and the same
is hereby, amended by adding at the end of the first section
thereof these words: "No one shall be eligible to said
appointment as inspector of plumbing who is not a practical plumber."
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the said ordinance adopted January 3, 1906, except as herein amended,
shall stand in all respects confirmed, and all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict herewth are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed October 10, 1906.
GasolineStorage, Etc.
By Committee on Fire by request
An ordinance to amend an ordinance passed April 13,
1904, providing for the storing, keeping, and using of gasoline, benzine, or naphtha in the City of Savannah.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
ordinance passed April 13,1904, regulating the storing, keeping, and using of gasoline, benzine, or naphtha in the City
of Savannah, be amended so far as the proviso in section 1
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of said ordinance is concerned, by inserting after the words,
"Xor to the territory north," in said proviso, and before
the words "of the Louisville road," the words "or south,"
and after the words "Bay street extended," the words "and
north of Gwinnett street extended," so that said proviso
as hereby amended shall read as follows:
Provided, however, That the provisions of this ordinance
in relation to keeping, storing, or vending gasoline, naphtha,
or benzine shall not apply to the territory within the city
limits north of Gwinnett street and east of Bilbo canal, nor
to the territory north or south of the Louisville road, west
of Muscogee creek and south of Bay street extended and
north of Gwinnett street extended. Nor shall provisions
apply to keeping, or storing of gasoline, naphtha, or benzine at freight depots and wharves, and in freight cars,
tank cars, steamers, or other vessels used in transporting
the same, when such gasoline, naphtha, or benzine is contained in drums, tanks, barrels, or casks hermetically sealed.
Ordinance passed October 10, 1906.
StreetsLaying Out and Dedicating.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets:
An ordinance prescribing and laying out a western
entrance way to Dixon Park, said entrance way or street to
be designated and known as Dixon Place, and for other
purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That
in order to give a proper entrance or access to Dixon Park
on its western side an entrance way or street is hereby
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designated and laid out; that is to say, said street shall be
thirty (30) feet wide, running from Ducy street to Henry
street, and shall embrace all of lots numbered twenty-four
(24) and twenty-five (25), in section nine (9), Waring
Ward on the western extremity of said park, as well as so
much of the lane running through said park as lies between
said named lots twenty-four (24) and twenty-five (25) and
the said street or entrance way so designated, is hereby
dedicated to public uses.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the said western
entrance way or street to said park shall be known and
designated as "Dixon Place."
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be,
and the same are hereby, repealed.
Ordinance passed October 19, 1906.
Streets and LanesStatement and Assessment Bolls.
By Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance to establish the official statement and
assessment roll touching the improvement of a portion of
Gaston street in the City of Savannah, from west property
line of Price street to the east property line of Jefferson
street, as made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah,
passed June 19, 1906.
Section 1. Be it ordained, by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
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statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the
Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah, and the
Committee on Streets and Lanes of said City, made under
an ordinance passed June 19, 1906, and entitled: "An
ordinance for the improvement of Gaston street, from the
west property line of Price street to the east property line
of Jefferson street in Savannah, Ga., under the terms and
provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved
October 1, 1887," and also under the terms and provisions of
an act of the General Assembly of Georgia, entitled: "An
act to provide for renewing or repairing any pavement now
laid or to be laid in any city of this State having a population over twenty thousand (20,000), approved October
10, 1891, said last-named act being codified in section 724
of the Code of Georgia, and for other purposes," be, and
they are hereby, declared to be the official statement and
assessment roll of said improvement under said ordinance,
said statement and assessment roll being that entitled:
"Statement and assessment roll for Gaston street. Statement showing the cost of improvements to Gaston street,
in the city of Savannah, Ga., beginning at the west property
line of Price street and extending to the east property line
of Jefferson street, as under an ordinance of the City of
Savannah, passed July 19, 1906, with an assessment roll
showing as to two-thirds of the cost, how it is apportioned
among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sum
chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners."
And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby
directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll
filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of
Council for due authentication and preservation.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of
the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and
send to the property owners, including a railroad company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as pro-
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vided for by said ordinance. Should the said bills be not
paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the bills, then
it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions, as
provided for by said ordinance, which shall be made and
levied as are executions for City taxes.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are
hereby repealed.
Ordance passed October 24, 1906.
Streets and LanesStatement and Assessment Rolls.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance to establish the official statement and
assessment roll touching the improvement of a portion of
Whitaker street, in the City of Savannah, Ga., from the
south property line of Gaston street to the north property
line of Park avenue, as made under an ordinance of the
City of Savannah, adopted April 25, 1906.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That
the statement and assessment roll submittted to Council by
the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and
the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said City, made
unde'r an ordinance passed April 25, 1906, and entitled, "An
ordinance for the improvement of Whitaker street, in the
city of Savannah, from the south property line of Gaston
street to the north property line of Park avenue, except
the Gwinnett street intersection, under the terms and pro-
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visions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved
October 1, 1887," and also under the terms and provisions of
an act of the General Assembly of Georgia, entitled: "An
act to provide for renewing or repairing any pavement
now laid or to be laid in any city of this State having a
population of over twenty thousand (20,000)," approved
October 10, 1891, said last-named act being codified in section 724, of the Code of Georgia, and for other purposes,"
be, and they are hereby, declared to be the offiieial statement and assessment roll of said improvement under said
ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that
entitled, "Statement and Assessment Roll for Improving
Whitaker street. Statement showing the cost of improvements to Whitaker street, in the City of Savannah, Ga,, beginning at the south property line of Gaston street and extending to the north property line of Park avenue. As
under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, Ga., passed
April 25, 1906, with an assessment roll showing as to twothirds of this cost how it is apportioned among the several
abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each
parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of
the City Council of Savannah is hereby directed to mark
the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date,
and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due
authentication and preservation.
Sec. 2. Be it furtther ordained, That the Treasurer of
the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and
send to the property owners, including the railroad COBGpany, a bill for the respective amount due by them as provided for by said ordinance. Should the said bills be not
paid within thirty (30) days from the date of bills, then
it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as
provided for by said ordinance which shall be made and
levied as are executions for City taxes.
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Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed October 24, 1906.
Streets and LanesStatement and Assessment Bolls.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance to establish the official statement and
assessment roll touching the improvement of a portion of
Lincoln street, in the City of Savannah, Ga., from the south
curb line of Bay street to the north curb line of Bryan
street, as made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah,
passed July 18, 1906.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the
Director of Public "Works for the City of Savannah and the
Committee on Streets and Lanes of said City, made under
an ordinance passed July 18, 1906, entitled "An ordinance
for the improvement of a portion of Lincoln street, from
the south curb line of Bay street to the north curb line of
Bryan street, in Savannah, Ga., under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved
October 1, 1887," be, and they are hereby declared to be
the official statement and assessment roll for said improvements under said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled "Statement and assessment
roll for improving Lincoln street, statement showing the
cost of improvements to Lincoln street, in the City of Savannah, Ga., beginning at the south curb line of Bay street and
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and extending to the north curb line of Bryan street. As
under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed July
18, 1906, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds
of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel,
with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council
of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark said
statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to
enter same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of
the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and
send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts
due by them as provided for by said ordinance. Should the
said bills be not paid within thirty (30) days from the date
of the bills, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to
issue executions as provided for by said ordinance, which
shall be made and levied as are executions for City taxes.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts, or ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby, repealed.
Ordinance passed October 24,1906.
Streets and LanesStatement and Assessment Boll.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance to establish the official statement and
assessment roll, touching the improvement of a portion of
Gaston street, from the west property line of Jefferson
street to the east property line of West Broad street, as made
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under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed May
9, 1906.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
statement and assessment roll submitted to Council by the
Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah, and the
Committee on Streets and Lanes of said City, made under
an ordinance passed May 9, 1906, and entitled, "An ordinance for the improvement of Gaston street, from the west
property line of Jefferson street to the east property line of
West Broad street, in Savannah, Ga., under the terms and
provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved
October 1, 1887, and for other purposes," be, and they are
hereby, declared to be the official statement and assessment
roll for said improvements under said ordinance, the said
statement and assessment roll being that entitled," Statement and assessment roll for improving Gaston street.
Statement showing the improvements to Gaston street in
the City of Savannah, Ga., beginning at the west property
line of Jefferson street and extending to the east property
line of West Broad street. As under an ordinance of the
City of Savannah, passed May 9, 1906, with an assessment
roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the
sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the
owners." And the Clerk of the City Council of Savannah
is hereby directed to mark said statement and assessment
roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the
minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation.
See. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of
the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and
send to the property owners, a bill for the respective
amounts due by them as provided for by said ordinance.
Should the said bills be not paid within thirty (30) days
from the date of the bills, then it shall be the duty of the
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Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for
City taxes.
Sec. 3. Be it farther ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed October 24, 1906.
Committees of CouncilCreation of Additional.
By Alderman W. L. Grayson
An ordinance to amend section 170 of MacDonell's
Code of Savannah, which prescribes the standing committees of Council, by creating another standing committee,
to be called Committee on Liquor Licenses, prescribing its
duties, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That
Section 170 of MacDonell's Code of Savannah, which prescribes the standing committees of Council be, and the same
is hereby, amended by adding thereto another committee,
to be called "Committee on Liquor Licenses," which committee shall consist of not less than three (3) members of
Council, to be appointed by the Mayor immediately from
and after the passage of this ordinance.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That to this committee
shall be referred all petitions or applications for liquor
licenses within the jurisdictional limits of Savannah, Ga.,
and it shall be the duty of this committee to make diligent
inquiry into the character and responsibility of each appli-
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cant 'for such licenses, and to examine into the location for
which application is made, hearing all objections, if any,
preferred against the same, and to perform all other duties
touching the issuance of such licenses and the conduct and
management of barrooms within said jurisdictional limits,
as may properly come under the jurisdiction of said committee, reporting back in each instance to the Committee of
the Whole, unless otherwise so directed.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed October 24, 1906.
Fire LimitsAmendment of.
By the Committee on Fire
An ordinance to amend an ordinance adopted December
7, 1904, touching the fire limits in Savannah, Ga., which1 lastnamed ordinance amended section five hundred and twentythree (523) of MacDonell's Code of Savannah, by striking
out a certain proviso in said section and several words succeeding said proviso, by striking out in said section five
hundred and twenty-three (523) as amended by said ordinance of December 7, 1904, the following words, to-wit:
"Thence along north side Huntingdon street to west side
Montgomery street to its intersection with the south side
of Jones street, and thence along the south side of Jones
street to its intersection with West Broad street, and thence
along the west side of West Broad street to its intersection
with Indian street, and thence along the northern side of
Indian street to the point on the Savannah and Ogeechee
canal, where the northern line of said Indian street extended
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would intersect said canal; thence again to the river:" and
by substituting in lieu thereof the following words, namely:
"Thence along the north side of Huntingdon street to a
point three hundred and ten (310) feet west of the west
side of "West Broad street; thence in a northerly direction
along a line extending from said point on Huntingdon street
three hundred and ten (310) feet west of the west side of
"West Broad street, said last-named line running parallel
with said west side of West Broad street, to the northeast
corner of Harrison and Ann streets; thence in a northerly
direction prolonging said line, from the northeast corner
of said Harrison and Ann streets, along the eastern side of
Ann street to Indian street; thence along the northern side
of Indian street to the point on the Savannah and Ogeechee
Canal, where the northern line of said Indian street extended would intersect said canal; thence in a northerly direction along the east side of said Savannah and Ogeechee
Canal, to the Savannah River," and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
ordinance named in the caption, adopted December 1, 1904,
touching the fire limits of Savannah, Ga., amending section five hundred and twenty-three (523) of MaeDonelPs
Code of Savannah be, and the same is hereby, amended by
striking out the words set forth in the foregoing caption
to be striken out, and by substituting, in lieu thereof, the
words set out in the foregoing caption to be substituted,
so that said section five hundred and twenty-three (523)
of MacDonell's Code of Savannah, amended by said ordinance of December 7, 1904, and now amended by this ordinance, shall read as follows:
"523. Fire Limits.The fire limits of the City of
Savannah shall be included within the following boundaries,
to wit: Savannah river on the north, East Broad street
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on the east, commencing at the river at the foot of East
Broad street and running southwardly along the east side
of East Broad street to its interesection with South Broad
street; thence along the north side of South Broad street to
its intersection with Price street; thence along the east side
of Price street to Taylor; thence along north side of Taylor
street to Habersham street; thence along east side of Habersham street to Huntingdon street; thence along the north
side of Huntingdon street to a point three hundred and ten
(310) feet west of the west side of West Broad street;
thence in a northerly direction along a line extending from
said point on Huntingdon street three hundred and ten
(310) feet west of the west side of "West Broad street, said
last-named line running parallel with said west side of "West
Broad street, to the northeast corner of Harrison and "Ann
streets; thence in a northerly direction prolonging said line,
from the northeast corner of said Harrison and Ann streets,
along the eastern side of Ann street, to Indian street; thence
along the northern side of Indian street to the point on the
Savannah and Ogeeehee Canal, where the northern line of
said Indian street extended would intersect said canal;
thence in a northerly direction along the east side of said
Savannah and Ogeeehee Canal to the Savannah River: Provided, that no wooden house or structure shall be built in
the City of Savannah north of Anderson street with wood
or shingle roof."
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances anl
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be, and
the same are hereby, repealed.
Ordinance passed November 7, 1906.
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Streets and LanesPaving.
By the Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance for the improvement of Liberty street
lane, from the west property line of Bull street to the east
property line of Whitaker street, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved
October 1, 1887.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under
the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of
Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, That the Director of
Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee
on Streets and Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby,
authorized and directed to build and construct on Liberty
street lane, in the City of Savannah, from the west property
line of Bull street to the east property line of Whitaker
street, a roadway of vitrified brick sixteen (16) feet in
width, between the curbing, and they are authorized and
directed to lay the necessary curbing, and to do all the
work in the way of grading the placing of catch basins,
drains, and all other things incident to the construction and
completion of said roadway on said portion of Liberty
street lane.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That after the total
cost of said work shall have been ascertained, one-third
of such cost of said work shall be paid out of the City
Treasury and the other two-thirds by the persons owning,
at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate
abutting on said lane according to frontage, and the pro
rata amount of said cost is hereby assessed against the said
abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according
to frontage.
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Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed,
the said Director and the said Committee shall prepare and
submit to Cauncil of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the said work and improvement, and also an
assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost, how it
is apportioned among the several abutting parcels according to frontage, and giving the sum chargeable to each, with
the name of the owner.
Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement
and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah,
it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to send
to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the
same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if
such bills so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after
the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to issue executions for
the amounts, together with costs, against the persons and
property aforesaid, which executions shall be made and
levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for City taxes.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed November 7, 1906.
Streets and LanesPaving.
By Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance for the improvement of Bay street lane
from the east property line of Bull street to the west prop-
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erty line of Drayton street, under the terms and provisions
of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October
1, 1887.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under
the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of
Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, That the Director of
Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee
on Streets and Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby,
authorized and directed to build and construct on Bay street
lane, in the City of Savannah, from the east property line
of Bull street to the west property line of Drayton street,
a roadway of vitrified brick twenty-two (22) feet in width,
between the curbing, and they are authorized and directed
to lay the necessary curbing, and to do all the work in the
way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains and all
other things incident to the construction and completion of
said roadway on said portion of said Bay street lane.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That after the total
cost of said work shall have been ascertained, one-third of
such cost of said work shall be paid out of the City Treasury
and the other two-thirds by the persons owning, at the date
of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting
on said lane, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount
of said cost is hereby assessed against the said abutting real
estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed the
said Director of Public Works and the said Committee, shall
prepare and submit to Council of the City of Savannah, a
statement showing the cost of said work and improvement,
and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of
the cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting
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parcels, according to frontage, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel, with the name of the owner.
Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement
and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah,
it shall then become the duty of the City Treasurer to send
to the abutting property owners, their proper bill for the
same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if
such bills so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after
the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become
the duty of the City Treasurer to issue executions for the
amounts, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which executions shall be made and levied
out of the property described therein, as are executions for
City taxes.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed November 7, 1906.
LandSale of.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
An ordinance providing for the sale by the Mayor and
Alderman of the City of Savannah to J. H. Lankenau of
lots ninety-one (91), P and Q, in Owens ward, in Savannah,
Ga., in exchange for conveyance by said Lankenau to said
municipal corporation of the western half of lot lettered
J, McNish subdivision, the said Lankenau to pay also the
sum of seven hundred ($700) dollars, and for other purposes.
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Section 1. Be it ordained, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That
lots ninety-one (91), P, and Q, Owens Ward, Savannah, Ga.,
the property of this municipal corporation, are hereby
directed to be sold to J. H. Lankenau in exchange for the
conveyance by said Lankenau to this municipal corporation
of the western half of lot lettered J, McNish subdivision,
and the payment by said Lankenau to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah of the sum of seven hundred
($700) dollars. Titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That upon being satisfied with titles, the City Attorney is directed to draw the
necessary conveyance between the parties to carry out this
sale and exchange, and the deed on behalf of the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Savannah will be signed by the
Mayor or Acting Mayor, with the corporate seal affixed,
attested by the Clerk of Council. The said sum of seven
hundred ($700)- dollars to be paid into the City Treasury
by said Lankenau at the time of the execution of said warrantv deed or deeds.
See. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, so
far as these lands are concerned, are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed November 7, 1906.
LiquorRelating to Sale.
By the Committee on Liquor Licenses
An ordinance to regulate barrooms and saloons and
retail liquor licenses in the corporate and jurisdictional
limits of the City of Savannah, Ga.
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Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That no
liquor license shall be issued to any person, firm, or corporation to sell malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors at retail,
within the corporate and jurisdictional limits of the City
of Savannah, Ga., except after a written application in
duplicate has" been filed by such person, firm, or corporation to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah,
and after the same shall have been approved by the Citv
Council, which application shall clearly locate and state the
place where it is proposed to so sell, and it shall not be
lawful to sell under such license until such application shall
have been granted, nor shall it be lawful to sell under such
license afer the same shall have been granted at any other
place than that named in the application.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That any person, firm,
or corporation desirous of selling malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors at retail within such corporate and jurisdictional limits, so as to begin business on the first of January
of any given year, shall file such written application in
duplicate with the Clerk of Council not later than December
1 of the year preceding, and any application filed after
December 1 of any year will not be considered by Council
until after the first of January of the year succeeding, ;:*].!
no person, firm, or corporation filing such application after
such December 1 shall begin such business on January 1 in
the succeeding year, and not thereafter until such application shall have been granted by Council.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That when any such
application duly filed, as aforesaid, shall have been granted
the amount fixed by the tax ordinance for any year as a
license for such business shall be paid to the City Treasurer
on or before January 15 of such year.
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See. 4. Be it further ordained, That any licenses issued
to such retail dealers in malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors
shall be revocable at any time by the City Council of Savannah for reasons satisfactory to it, upon hearing had, after
notice to such dealer to be present at such hearing, which
hearing shall be final, and the substance of this section
shall be stated as a condition in the license* granted, and
upon revocation of such license another shall not be granted
to such person, firm, or corporation, until after the expiration of two (2) years from the date of such revocation.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That any such retail
dealer violating any of the terms of this ordinance shall be
punished, upon conviction before the Police Court of the
City of Savannah, for each and every infraction thereof,
by fine not to exceed one hundred ($100) dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, either or both,
in the discretion of the court.
Sec. 6. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed November 7, 1906.
LandReclaimation of Lot Donated to Colored Military.
By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
An ordinance, repealing ordinance adopted January
18, 1897, providing for sale to certain colored military commands, of a certain lot of land in Savannah, Ga., to be
used for armory uses, annulling the deed made thereunder,
declaring the land so conveyed to be now the property of
this municipal corporation, and for other purposes.
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Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
ordinance named in the caption which granted and provided
for the sale and conveyance of a certain lot of land in
Savannah, Ga., on the corner of Cuyler street and New
Houston street lane, known as subdivision "B" of lot number five (5), Marshall ward, having a front on Cuyler street
of thirty-five (35) feet, more or less, to First Battalion of
Infantry, Georgia Volunteers (colored), the Georgia Artillery (colored), and the Savannah Hussars (colored), to be
used for armory purposes, is hereby repealed, and the deed
made in pursuance of said ordinance on 23d of January,
1897, to said military commands, recorded in clerk's office
of Chatham Superior Court, in book of deeds 7 S's, page 67,
is hereby annulled, the said lot not being used as an armory,
and said commands having been abolished and disbanded by
act of the General Assembly of Georgia, so that title to
said lot of land reverts to the Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of Savannah.
Said lot of land is declared to be the property of this
municipal corporation, and is directed to be taken possession of as such.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances conflicting herewith are repealed.
Ordinance passed November 21, 1906.
ParksDesignating and Naming "Grayson Park."
By Alderman Freeman
An ordinance, declaring the land recently purchased
by the Mayor and Alderman of the City of Savannah from
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Robert M. Hicks, on October 16, 1906, a public park, naming the same, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
land purchased by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah from Robert M. Hieks on October 16, 1906, being
located in the City of Savannah, Ga., and known as twentytwo (22) lots in Kelly ward, lying between Bolton, Ott,
Waldburg and Harmon streets, said land being more particularly described in said deed, which is recorded in clerk's
office of Superior Court of Chatham County, in book of
deeds 9 I's, folio 166 be, and the same is hereby, dedicated
as a public park for the use and benefit of the people of
Savannah.
See. 2. Be it further ordained, That said park shall
hereafter be known and designated as "Grayson Park," in
honor of the Hon. William L. Grayson, Alderman of the
City of Savannah.
See. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed November 21, 1906.
LandSale of.
By Committee on City Lots and Openings Streets
An ordinance providing for the sale of the northern portions of lots numbered thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35),
Gumming Ward, in Savannah, Ga., to L. L. Carswell, and for
other purposes.
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Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
Mayor or Acting Mayor of the City of Savannah, is hereby
authorizd and directed to convey by warranty deed, in the
name of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah
and under its seal, attested by the Clerk of Council, to L. L.
Carswell, at and for the sum of twelve hundred ($1,200)
dollars, to be paid into the City Treasury, all that parcel of
land in Savannah, Ga., known as the northern portions of
lots numbered thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35), in
dimming Ward, lying to the south of and adjoining lots
numbered four (4), five (5), twelve (12), and part of thirteen
(13), in said Ward (said last-named lots fronting on Thirtythird street), and to the northward of a lane, being a rectangular parallelogram in shape, one hundred and fifteen
(115) feet long from east to west and twenty-three and seventenths (23.7) feet wide, the said strip being bounded north
by said lots four (4), five (5), twelve (12) and a portion of
thirteen (13), east by portion of said lot numbered thirtyfive (35) said ward, south by a public lane sixteen (16) feet
wide and west by Abereorn street, all as expressed upon a
plat made by J. W. Howard, Assistant City Engineer, November 15, 1906, which plat will be attached to and form part
of said deed.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed so far
as this land conveyed is concerned.
Ordinance passed November 21, 1906.
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MacDonell'a CodeAmending Section 1336.
By the Committee on Liquor Licenses
An ordinance to amend section thirteen hundred and
thirty-six (1336) of MacDonell's Code of Savannah, by striking therefrom the requirement as to bond and securities, and
for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the" City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That section
thirteen hundred and thirty-six (1336) of MacDonell's Code
of Savannah is hereby amended by striking out, in the
caption of said section, the following words, namely, "give
bond to," and by striking out in the body of said section the
following words, to-wit, "giving two or more approved
securities, in the sum of twice the amount of the license, conditioned for the due observance of the ordinances of the City
and the laws of the State," and by inserting in lieu thereof,
these words, namely, "complying with the ordinances of the
City in this respect," so that said section, when amended,
shall read as follows:
"1336. Applicant to comply with the law, etc. The
Mayor is hereby authorized to grant the license upon the
applicant's paying the sum required therefor, and complying with the ordinances of the City in this respect, and every
license shall continue in force until the first day of January
next ensuing thereafter, and no longer."
See. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with his ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed November 21, 1906.
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MacDonelTs CodeRepeal of Section 1334.
By Committee on Liquor Licenses
An ordinance to repeal section thirteen hundred and
thirty-four (1334) of MaeDonelTs Code of Savannah.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That section
thirteen hundred and thirty-four (1334) of MaeDonell's Code
of Savannah, which relates to violating the terms or conditions of retail liquor licenses, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed November 21,1906
MaeDonell's CodeAmending Section 1335.
By Committee on Liquor Licenses
An ordinance to amend section thirteen hundred and
thirty-five (1335) of MaeDonell's Code of Savannah, touching the form of license to retail liquor by requiring that the
license to retail liquor shall be in such form as shall be prescribed by the Committee on Liquor Licenses, and for other
purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That section
thirteen hundred and thirty-five (1335) of MaeDonell's Code
of Savannah is hereby amended by striking out all of said
section, except the figures and words as follows: "1335.
Form of license to retail liquor. The form of the license shall
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be," and by inserting in lieu thereof these words: "Such as
shall be prescribed from time to time by the Committee on
Liquor Licenses," so that said section as amended, shall read
as follows:
"1335. Form of License to Keail Liquor. The form of
the license shall be such as shall be prescribed from time to
time by the Committee on Liquor Licenses."
Section 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be,
and the same are hereby, repealed.
Ordinance passed November 21, 1906.
LandSale of.
By Committe on City Lots and Opening Streets
An ordinance to provide for the sale of the northern portion of lots thirty-seven (37), thirty-eight (38), thirty-nine
(39), forty (40), and forty-one (41), Gumming "Ward, in the
City of Savannah, Ga. (which lots front on Thirty-fourth
street), to Peter J. Ott, by duplicate deed of sale and exchange, the said Ott to convey to the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah all his claim, right, title, interest
and estate in and to the northern portions of lots thirty-six
(36), thirty-seven (37), and a small strip of land between
said last-named lot and Lincoln street, forty-four (44), fortyfive (45), fifty-two (52), fifty-three (53), and sixty (60), in
said Gumming Ward, lying to the northward of the southern
line of Thirty-third street as now established, and for other
purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor ami Aldermen
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of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
Mayor or Acting Mayor of said City is hereby authorized and
directed to convey, by duplicate warranty deed, in the name
of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, and
under its seal, attested by the Clerk of Council, to Peter J.
Ott, the northern portions of lots thirty-seven (37), thirtyeight (38), thirty-nine (39), forty (40), and forty-one (41),
Gumming Ward, in the City of Savannah, Ga. (which lastnamed lots front on Thirty-fourth street), which northern
portions lie to the southward of and adjoining lots thirtysix (36), thirty-seven (37), and a narrow strip between said
last-named lot and Lincoln street, forty-four (44), forty-five
(45), fifty-two (52), fifty-three (53), and sixty (60), of said
Ward (which last-named lots front on Thirty-third street),
and to the northward of a lane, said parcels of land herein
conveyed being two in number, one sixty-six feet long 'from
east to west, twenty-two and three-tenths (22.3) feet on its
eastern end and twenty-two and seven-tenths (22.7) feet on
its western end, bounded north by lots thirty-six (36), thirtyseven (37), dimming Ward, fronting on Thirty-third street,
and strip between said lot Thirty-seventh (37th) and Lincoln
streets, on the east by Lincoln street, on the south by a lane
sixteen (16) feet wide, and on the west by the northern portion of lot thirty-seven (37) of said Ward; the other tract
being one hundred and fifty-three and six-tenths (153.6) feet
long from east to west, with twenty-two (22) feet width on
its eastern end, and twenty-two and three-tenths (22.3) feet
width on its western end, bounded north by lots forty-four
(44), forty-five (45), fifty-two (52), fifty-three (53), and
sixty (60) of said Ward, which front on Thirty-third street;
on the east by lot numbered one hundred and six (106) of
said Ward, on the south by said lane sixteen (16) feet wide,
and west by Lincoln street; the said two strips of land herein
conveyed being delineated on plat of the same made by
J. W. Howard, Assistant City Engineer, November 12, 1906.
said plat to be attached to the deed; and in said duplicate
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deed the said P. J. Ott is to convey to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, all of the northern portion of
lots thirty-six (36), and thirty-seven (37), said strip of land
between said last-named lot and Lincoln street, forty-four
(44), forty-five (45),fifty-two (52), fifty-three (53), and sixty
(60) in said Gumming Ward, and all of his claim and estate
therein, lying to the northward of the southern line of Thirtythird street, as now established, and the said deeds to be in
such form as the City Attorney shall dictate, titles to be satisfactory to him.
See. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed so
far as said land herein conveyed by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savanah is concerned.
Ordinance passed December 5, 1906.
Fire OrdinanceAmending Relation to Betired RolL
An Ordinance by Committee on Fire
An ordinance to amend an ordinance relating to the Fire
Department, adopted September 16, 1903, by adding a third
paragraph to section 10, so as to provide for the placing on
the retired roll of any member of the Fire Department disabled by reason of accidental injury received in the discharge of his duty, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the ordinance relating to the Fire Department, adopted September
16, 1903, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding a
third paragraph to section 10, which third paragraph shall
read as follows:
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"Third. Any member of the said Fire Department who
may be permanently disabled by reason of accidental injury
to his person received during the discharge of his duty and
thereby rendered unable to earn a support may, if Council
so determines, be placed on the retired roll on one-half pay;
that is to say, receiving an annual pension during his lifetime equal to one-half of the full compensation of such member so retired."
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That any ordinance or
section of ordinance conflicting with this ordinance be, and
the same is hereby, repealed.
Ordinance passed December 5, 1906.
LandDedication for Parks and Lanes.
By the Committee of the Whole
An ordinance dedicating certain strips of land in Dixon,
Granger, and Watson Wards, in Savannah, Ga., for public
uses as lanes, and also three tracts of land for public uses
as parks.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That those
certain strips or parcels of land, sixteen (16) feet wide,
each extending from east to west, through the middle of
each of the blocks of land belonging to Harvey Granger
(except three blocks for use as parks), in the City of Savannah, Ga., in what was formerly known as the "Branch
tract," now in Dixon, Grand, and Watson Wards, and conveyed to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah
by said Granger in deed executed and delivered on November 13, 1906, are hereby dedicated for public uses as lanes.
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Said lanes are four (4) in number, one between Estill
avenue and Forty-fourth (44th) street, one between Fortyfourth (44th) and Forty-fifth (45th) streets, one between
Forty-fifth (45th) and Forty-sixth (46th) streets, and one
between Forty-sixth (46th) and Forty-seventh (47th) streets.
See. 2. Be it further ordained, That three (3) certain
parcels of land, also conveyed in said deed and located in
said same tract, are hereby dedicated for public uses, as
parks; that is to say:
One tract or park, being a rectangular parallelogram in
shape, two hundred and sixty-eight and nine-tenths (268.9)
feet on its northern and southern sides, two hundred and
twenty-six (226) feet on its eastern and western ends,
bounded north by Forty-fifth street, east by Price street,
south by Forty-sixth street, and west by Habersham street;
One tract or park, being a rectangular parallelogram in
shape, five hundred and seventy-eight and five-tenths (578.5)
feet on its northern and southern sides and two hundred and
twenty-six (226) feet on its eastern and western ends,
bounded north by Forty-fourth street, east by Atlantic street,
south by Forty-fifth street and west by Reynolds street;
And another tract or park, a rectangular parallelogram
in shape, four hundred and fifty (450) feet long on its
northern and southern sides and two hundred and twentysix (226) feet wide on its eastern and western ends, bounded
north by Forty-fifth street, east by Harmon street, south by
Forty-sixth street and west by Paulsen street.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed December 5, 1906.
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Streets and LanesPaving.
By Committee on Streets and Lanes
An ordinance for the improvement of portions of certain
streets and lanes in the City of Savannah, Ga.; that is to
say, Bay street lane from the west side of Bull street to the
east side of Whitaker street; President street from the west
side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street; York
street lane from the east side of Bull street to the west side
of Drayton street, and from the west side of Bull street to
the east side of Whitaker street; Oglethorpe avenue lane,
from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker
street; Hull street from the east side of Bull street to the
west side of Drayton street, and from the west side of Bull
street to the east side of Whitaker street; McDonough street
from the east side of Bull to the west side of Drayton street,
and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of
Whitaker street; Perry street from the east side of Bull
street to the west side of Drayton street, and from the west
side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street; Perry
street lane, from the west side of Bull street to the east side
of Whitaker street; Harris street, from the west side of Bull
street to the east side of Whitaker street; Macon street from
the east side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street,
and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of
Whitaker street; Charlton street from the east side of Bull
street to the west side of Drayton street, and from the west
side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street; Charlton
street lane from the west side of Bull street to the east side
of Whitaker street, and from the east side of Bull street to
the west side of Drayton street; Jones street lane, from the
west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street,
and from the east side of Bull street to the west side of
Drayton street; Taylor street from the west side of Bull
street to the east side of Whitaker street, and from the east
side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street; Wayne
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street from the west side of Bull street to the east side of
Whitaker street; Gordon street from the east side of Bull
street to the west side of Drayton street, and from the west
side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street; Gordon street lane, from the west side of Bull street to the east
side of Whitaker street, and from the east side of Bull street
to the west side of Drayton street, all under the terms and
provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved
October 1, 1887.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the
terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia,
approved October 1,1887, That the Director of Public Works
for the City of Savannah, Ga., and the Committee on Streets
and Lanes of said City be, and they are hereby, authorized
and directed to build and construct on certain streets and
lanes in the City of Savannah, Ga., roadways, respectively,
of asphalt blocks for the streets and vitrified brick for the
lanes, with a width between curbing on each side of the same
as specified below; that is to say, Bay street lane from the
west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street,
twenty-two (22) feet width; President street, from the west
side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street, thirtyseven (37) feet width; York street lane 'from the east side
of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, and from
the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker
street, twenty-two and five-tenths (22.5) feet width; Oglethorpe avenue lane, from the west side of Bull street to the
east side of Whitaker street, thirty-two (32) feet width; Hull
street from the east side of Bull street to the west side
of Drayton street, and from the west side of Bull street
to the east side of Whitaker street, twenty-two (22) feet
width; McDonough street from the east side of Bull
street to the west side of Drayton street, and from th
west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street,
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forty (40) feet width; Perry street from the east side of
Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, and from the
west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street,
twenty-two (22) feet width; Perry street lane, from the west
side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street, thirtytwo and five-tenths (32.5) feet width; Harris street, from
the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker
street, thirty (30) feet width; Macon street from the east
side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, and
from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker
street, thirty (30) feet width; Charlton street from the east
side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, and
from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker
street, thirty (30) feet width; Charlton street lane from the
west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street,
and from the east side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, twenty-two (22) feet width; Jones street lane
from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitakor
street, and from the east side of Bull street to the west si '<i
of Drayton street, twenty-two and five-tenths (22.5) width;
Taylor street from the west side of Bull street to the east side
of Whitaker street, and from the east side of Bull street to
the west side of Drayton street, thirty (30) feet width;
Wayne street from the west side of Bull street to the east
side of Whitaker street, thirty (30) feet width; Gordon street
from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker
street, and from the east side of Bull street, to the west side
of Drayton street, thirty (30) feet width; Gordon street lane
from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker
street, and from the east side of Bull street to the west side
of Drayton street, twentytwo and five-tenths (22.5) feet
width; > and they are authorized and directed to lay the
necessary curbing, and to do all work in the way of grading,
the placing of catch basins, drains and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said respective
roadways on said portions of said streets and lanes.
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Sec. 2. Be it farther ordained, That after the total cost
of said work shall have been ascertained, one-third of the cost
of said work on each of said portions of street and lanes
shall be paid out of the City Treasury, and the other twothirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of
this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said respective
portions of said streets and lanes to be improved under this
ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount
of the cost of such work on each of said streets and lanes,
respectively, is hereby assessed against the said abutting real
estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage.
See. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed the said
Director and the said Committee shall prepare and submit
to the Council of the City of Savannah separate statements
and assessment rolls for the work done on each of said
streets and lanes; that is to say, statements showing the
cost of said work and improvements on each of said streets
and lanes, also assessment rolls showing as to two-thirds of
the cost on each of said streets and lanes, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels on said streets
and lanes, respectively, according to frontage, and giving
the sum chargeable to each parcel, with the name of the
owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statements and assesment rolls, respectively, by the Council of
the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the
City Treasurer to send to such abutting property owners on
said respective streets and lanes, their proper bill for the
same as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if
such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after
the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become
the duty of the said Treasurer to issue executions for the
respective amounts, together with costs, against the persons
and property aforesaid, which executions shall be made and
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levied out of the property respectively described therein, as
are executions for City taxes.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are hereby
repealed.
Ordinance passed December 19, 1906.
LandSale of.
Ordinance by Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
An ordinance to provide for sale of a strip of land in
Norwood AVnrd, in Savannah, to Lillie A. Hawley, and for
other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That a certain
strip of land in Norwood AVard, in Savannah, Ga., being part
of lot numbered 61, in Kingsville, said strip being fourteen
and thirty-five hnndredths feet wide on the northern end
and thirten and five-tenths feet wide, on the southern end,
and ninety feet long, bounded west by Jefferson street, and
north by Best street, embracing 1,251 square feet, the
property of this municipal corporation, is directed to be
sold to Lillie A. Hawley at and for the price of twelve (12)
cents per square foot, said area to be determined by plat of
same to be made by Acting City Engineer or Assistant City
Engineer.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That upon the payment
of the purchase price on said basis the deed of this municipality will be delivered to purchaser, same to be signed on
behalf of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah,
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by the Mayor, with corporate seal affixed, attested by the
Clerk of Council.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed, so far
as this land is concerned.
Ordinance passed December 19, 1906.
StreetName of Railroad to Meldrim Avenue,
By Alderman Sehroder
An ordinance to repeal an ordinance adopted February
9, 1899, which changed the name of the street in the City of
Savannah, Ga., known as Meldrim avenue, to Railroad street,
and to restore said name of Meldrim avenue to said thoroughfare, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the
ordinance adopted February 9, 1899, by the City Council of
Savannah, which changed the name of Meldrim avenue to
Railroad street be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
See 2. Be it further ordained, That that certain
thoroughfare in the City of Savannah, Ga., extending from
"West Broad street to the western limits of said City, formerly known as Railroad street to Savannah and Ogeeehee
Canal, and west of the canal, as Louisville road, shall be
hereafter known and designated as "Meldrim avenue."
See. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and
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parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
repealed.
Ordinance passed December 19, 1906.
ResolutionSidewalks.
By the Streets and Lanes Committee
Whereas, by an ordinance adopted February 9, 1902, for
securing uniformity in the sidewalks of Savannah, it is provided among other things, that Gwinnett street in said City
from Bast Broad street east, to the City limits, shall have
sidewalks on either side of the roadway ten (10) feet in
width, which ordinance has been amended reducing width of
sidewalk to seven (7) feet; therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled: First. That a sidewalk
of seven feet (7) feet in width is hereby required to be laid
on each side of Gwinnett street from Habersham street to
Waters avenue, excepting that portion of Gwinnett street
embraced by the subway, the said sidewalks to be of any
hard material, subject to the approval of the Streets and
Lanes Committee.
Second. That the sidewalks in the foregoing limits, shall
be laid within ninety (90) days from and after the passage
of this'resolution, and if not so laid within that time, then
the municipal authorities of the City of Savannah shall proceed to lay the same at the expense of the property owners
and the remedies by the municipal authorities of Savannah
in the event of the failure or refusal of the property owners
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to lay said sidewalks as herein required, shall apply as ta
such sidewalks.
Adopted January 3, 1906.
ResolutionLand, Purchase of.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the deed made by
Female Orphan Benevolent Society to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, covering the southern part of
lot numbered one hundred and five (105), Gumming Ward,
Savannah, containing seventeen hundred and forty-five and
one-tenth (1,745.1) square feet, as per plat of City Engineer
of December 27, 1905, at thirty (30) cents per square foot,
is hereby approved and accepted, same being drawn by the
City Attorney, and title being satisfactory to him. The said
purchase is hereby authorized and the purchase money, five
hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifty-three cents
(523.53) will be paid out of the City Treasury to the vendor.
Adopted January 3, 1906.
LandPurchase of.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
Resolved by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That resolution adopted by
Council at the meeting held on December 6, 1905, touching
the purchase of the remaining portion of lot 90^2, Owens
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"Ward, Savannah, Ga., from John Ohsiek he, and the same is
hereby, amended hy striking out the amount of purchase
money specified therein, to wit, $139.68, and by substituting
in lieu thereof the amount of $226.98, and that said lastnamed sum shall be paid out of the City Treasury to said
John Ohsiek for said property upon the execution and delivery by him of warranty deed to the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Savannah conveying said property, as per
plat made by the Assistant City Engineer on January 9, 1906,
to be attached to the deed. Titles satisfactory to the City
Attorney.
Adopted January 31, 1906.
WharvesLease of.
By the Committee on Harbor and Wharves
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the wharf lot at the
foot of Drayton street, just across River street from the Cotton Exchange, be rented to Georgia Pine Company for a
term of five (5) years from January 1, 1906, at a rental of
one hundred ($100) dollars per year, pajrable in equal instalments semi-annually during said term; the tenant to make
the necessary repairs to put said wharf in good order and
condition, and to keep same in good order and condition
during the said term, and the sum of one hundred ($100)
dollars will be contributed by the Mayor and Aldermen of
the City of Savannah toward the putting of said wharf in
good condition, which is to be covered by the remission of
said tenant of the rent for 1906, lease to be drawn by the
City Attorney, and same to be executed on behalf of the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah by the Mayor,
376 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
or Acting Mayor, attested by the Clerk of Council, with the
seal affixed, the lease to embody such terms as may by the
City Attorney be deemed necessary.
Adopted January 31, 1906.
LandPurchase of.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the offer of Fred W.
Garden and George A. Mercer, Jr., to sell to this municipality
land for the opening of Duffy street from the western property line of Atlantic street westward four hundred and
twenty (420) feet, the said strip of land being sixty-six
(66) feet wide, and embracing twenty-seven thousand seven
hundred and twenty (27,720) square feet, at and for the price
of fifteen (15) cents per square foot, the said parties to convey for the same consideration to this municipality two
lanes for public uses, each twenty (20) feet wide, one extending from the wsetern property line of Atlantic street
westward four hundred and twenty (420) feet, embracing
eight thousand four hundred (8,400) square feet, being between Duffy and Henry streets, and the other extending from
the western property line of Atlantic street westward four
hundred and fifty-two and nine-tenths (452.9) feet, embracing nine thousand and fifty-eight (9,058) square feet, said,
last-named lane being between Henry street and Anderson
street, and for like consideration to convey also a strip o
land in Anderson street, extending from the western property line of Atlantic street to the westward four hundred and
fifty-two and nine-tenths (452.9) feet, being along the entire
frontage of the property of the said parties, and said last-
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named strip embracing twenty-one hundred and forty-nine
and four-tenths (2,149.4) square feet, as well as all of the
right and title of said parties to any land in Anderson street
beyond the northern line of said street, which is the southern
line of their property, is accepted. All of the foregoing as
per plat made by J. W. Howard, Assistant City Engineer,
February 14, 1906. Said payments to be made by notes in
equal amounts due one, two, three, and four years after date,
with interest at' 5 per cent from date, -payable annually.
Titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney.
Adopted February 14, 1906.
LandPurchase of.
By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
Resolved, That the offer of E. H. Abrahams, attorney for
Rebecca Guerrard, to sell to the City all of that land taken
for the opening of Thirty-ninth street of lot 20, section A,
Demere "Ward, amounting to 1,265.7 square feet, for the sum
of two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars be, and the same
is hereby, accepted. Titles to be satisfactory to the City
Attorney.
Adopted February 28, 1906.
AppropriationColored Library.
Resolution by Committee of the "Whole
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council essembled, That it is desirable and
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proper to aid the proposed public library for colored citizens
in the City of Savannah, and to this end it is required that
the Library Association for Colored Citizens shall first equip
its library room -with proper furniture and other appurtenances so as to be ready for use as a library, and that when
this is done to the satisfaction of the Finance Committee of
Council a sum of money not less than $25 nor more than $40
a month shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, to be paid out
of the City Treasury to the s:-ii<l Library Association for the
usos of said public library whenever said Association shows
to the Finance Committee that it has raised an equivalent
amount per month from other sources; and the Finance Committee is hereby empowered to act under the above limitations and to direct monthly payments from the Treasury
accordingly.
Adopted March 14, 1906.
Streets and LanesExtension of.
By Committee on Streets and Lanes
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled:
1. That it is deemed expedient and necessary to open
and extend Duffy street across the rijrht of way of the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company at grade, and to this
end the Mayor of the City of Savannah is directed to communicate with the president of said railroad company so as
to obtain the consent of the said corporation without putting
the City to the expense or trouble of condemnation proceedings. Such consent is probably inferable from the communication of Mr. Erwin, president, to the Mayor, dated
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 379
March' 2, 1904, touching the opening of Thirty-ninth street
across said right-of-way of said railroad company, but it is
proper that express consent should be had in each instance
before any action be taken by Council.
2. If the railroad company consents to the foregoing then,
in such event, the Committee on Streets and Lanes will proceed to construct said respective street crossing over said
right-of-way of said railroad company, conferring witli tlie
Engineer of said railroad company as to all details of the
same, and the expense thereof will be charged to the account
of the Streets and Lanes Department.
Adopted March 14, 1906.
WaterworksLaying of Mains.
By Committee on Water
Resolved, that the Committee on "Water be authorized
to expend the sum of $3,429 for the purchase of material for
the laying of 10-inch main on Anderson street, from Price
to Waters road, and a 6-inch main on Louisville and Augusta
roads.
Adopted March 28, 1906.
Fire DepartmentExpenditure of Extra Appropriation.
By Alderman Davant
Resolved, That the Committe on Fire be, and is hereby,
authorized to expend the sum of $5,000, appropriated in the
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budget for the improvement of the Fire Department, on the
fire-alarm system as per the recommendation of the committee of twenty of the National Board of Fire Underwriters,
as per their letter of April 17.
Adopted April 25, 1906.
StreetsPurchase of Land for Opening of.
By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets:
Eesolved, By the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the purchase made by
the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets, of lots 15
and 16, King's sub-division, on Nephew street, from P. W.
Meld rim, executor of the will of Robert Mclntire, at public
sale, for the opening of Barnard street, for three hundred
and and twelve ($312) dollars be, and the same is hereby,
approved, and the payment of the said sum of three hundred
and twelve dollars from the City Treasury, in the purchase
of said property, is hereby approved and confirmed.
Adopted April 25, 1906.
Police Court Publication of Caption of Bills for Enlarging
Powers.
By the Committee of the Whole
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Mayor is directed
to have publication made of caption of local bill to be introduced in the Legislature, when it next assembles, enlarging
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the powers and jurisdiction of the Police Court, providing
for clerk of said court, and for other purposes; and also a
caption of another bill to provide for an increase in the
limit of punishment in ordinances, fine for each offense not
to exceed two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars, and imprisonment not to exceed sixty (60) days, either or both, in
the discretion of the Police Court, and for other purposes;
the captions of said bills to be drawn by City Attorney, under
the Mayor's direction. Bills to be submitted to and approved
by Council before introduction in General Assembly.
Adopted May 23, 1906.
LandPurchase of for Street Opening.
By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the offer of Horace
Rivers et al. to sell to the City land for the opening of certain streets to the east, and connecting with Waters avenue,
to wit, the north half of Anderson street, Henry street, Duffy
street, Park avenue and Collins street, extending from
Waters avenue to the westward, and Live Oak street ninniug
north and south from Anderson to and crossing Colliiis
street, the land in said streets amounting to 328,878 square
feet, at two and a half cents per square foot be, and the
same is hereby, accepted, the owners of said property to
convey all water mains now laid in said street, to remove
all encroachments and encumbrances therefrom at their own
expense, and to convey to the City as dedicated lanes, the
strips of land between Henry and Anderson streets, Henry
and Duffy streets and Duffy street and Park avenue, all as
laid out upon a plat of the same made by the Assistant City
Engineer September 14, 1905, the said lanes aggregating
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60,440 square feet; payment to be made for the foregoing
by notes of the City due two, three, four, and five years after
date, bearing interest from date at the rate of 5 per centum
per annum, payable annually. Titles to be satisfactory to
the City Attorney.
Adopted June 6, 1906.
Death of Hon. E. E. Lester.
By the Committee of the Whole
Council being informed of the death of the Hon. Rufus E.
Lester. who for several terms was Mayor of this City and who
has rendered signal service to Savannah in the General
Assembly of Georgia as well as in the halls of Congress, it is
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savnnnnh, in Council assembled:
1. That the flag on the City Hall now at half-mast be
kept so until after the funeral of Mr. Lester.
2. That iiis honor the Mayor is requested to be present,
with a committee of citizens to be appointed by him, at the
Union Station tomorrow morning on the arrival of the train
from Washington bearing Mr. Lester's body, to receive the
same, and to do whatever may be necessary in the premises.
A detail of police to be present also on the arrival of said
train to escort the body to St. John's Church, where it will
remain until the funeral in the afternoon.
3. The regular meeting of Council to be held tomorrow
afternoon will be adjourned in time so that the Mayor and
Aldermen and City officials, as a body, can attend the funeral
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at St. John's Church, and from 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon all' public offices in the city hall will be closed for the
remainder of the day.
4. His honor the Mayor is requested to take such further
action and do whatever else may seem best in his judgment
to honor the memory of Mr. Lcster, including the appointment of a committee of Council, of which he shall be chairman, to report back at a subsequent meeting appropriate
resolutions to be adopted by Council in the premises.
Adopted June 19, 1906.
LandMoney Paid for Condemnation of.
By the Commitee on City Lots and Opening Streets
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the sum of eight hundred ($800) dollars is hereby appropriated to be paid out
of the City Treasury to Elizabeth H. Skinner in full of
award in condemnation proceedings as to southern part of
lot thirty-five (35) Brady sub-division, Estill "Ward, Savannah, Ga., on proper receipt to be drawn by City Attorney,
and that all costs and expenses of said proceeding be paid
out of said Treasury when certified as correct by City
Attorney.
When all requirements are complied with said Thirtyfifth street will be opened under the advice of City Attorney.
Adopted June 19, 1906.
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ParksLand Purchased for Same.
By Special Committee on Parks
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the offer of Realty
Improvement and Trust Company to sell to this corporation
sixteen (16) lots of land in Savannah, Ga., known as lots
numbered seventeen (17) to thirty-two (32), both inclusive,
section nine (9), Waring "Ward, located on Duffy and Henry
streets, for the sum of sixteen thousand ($16,000) dollars,
to be evidenced by notes of the City of even date with the
deed, due two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), and six (6)
years after date, bearing interest from date at the rate of
four (4) per cent per annum, payable annually be, and the
same is hereby, accepted, the improvements and buildings on
said land to be and remain the property of the Realty Improvement and Trust Company, and to be removed by it
within ninety (90) days from the date of deed, and, if not
removed, then to be removed by this corporation at the
expense of said grantor.
Resolved, further. That in order to consummate said purchase, five notes of the sum of thirty-two hundred ($3,200)
dollars each, will be executed on behalf of this municipality
by the Mayor, attested by the Clerk of Council, with the
corporate seal affixed, payable to the order of the Realty
Improvement and Trust Company, due two (2), three (3),
four (4), five (5), and six (6) years after date, bearing
interest from date until paid at the rate of four (4) per cent
per annum, payable annuallly. Titles to be satisfactory to
the City Attorney.
Adopted July 6. 1906.
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. MarketLaying of Concrete Floor.
By Alderman Canty
Resolved, That the Committee on Market be, and they
are hereby, authorized to have laid a concrete floor with a
cement top in the south side of the City Market. Bids to
be advertised for and work to be done under the supervision
of the Director of Public Works.
Adopted July 6, 1906.
PoliceRetirement of Sergt. J. M. Mock.
By the Committee on Police=
Resolved by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the application of
Sergt. James M. Mock, of the police force of this City, to be
placed on the retired roll because of physical disabilities
which unfit him for duty, is hereby granted, and the certificate of the Health Officer complying with the ordinance in
such cases made and provided is concurred in by Council.
It is further resolved, That said James M. Mock is
directed to be placed on the retired roll of the police force,
and he shall receive an annual pension during his life time
of a sum equivalent to one-half of the full salary of said
Mock; that is to say, an annual pension of five hundred and
sixty ($560) dollars, payable monthly, in equal installments,
out of the City Treasury.
Adopted July 6, 1906.
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Resolution on Death of Col. R. E. Lester.
Under and by virtue of a resolution of Council, adopted
on Wednesday, June 20, 1906, requesting his honor the
Mayor to appoint a committee to report back to a subsequent meeting of Council appropriate resolutions on the
death of the Hon. Rufus E. Lester, your committee, appointed under such resolution, begs to report as follows:
In the death of the Hon. Rufus E. Lester, the people of
the City of Savannah and of the State of Georgia at large
have lost from the active duties of the National Congress a
distinguished Representative, who has served them long and
faithfully, and from the ranks of honorable and worthy
citizenship one who has proven himself to be, in every sense
of the term, a manly man. As a husband and father he was
loving, tender, and true; as a friend he was loyal and unselfish ; as a lawyer he was learned, forceful, and of high
ideals: as a soldier he was brave and chivalrous, and unflinching in the discharge of his duty: as a member of the State
Legislature his services in the trying period of reconstruction
were of priceless value, and as Mayor of this City for three
consecutive terms he discharged the high duties of his office
with signal ability and good judgment. For nearly nine
consecutive years he rendered to this City and State as a
member of the National Congress services of immeasurable
value. The appropriations from the National Government
necessary for the deepening of the Savannah Harbor and
the resultant magnificent trade and commerce which this
City now enjoys were secured largely through his tact,
friendliness, and general resourcefulness. Likewise, the
Marine Hospital and the postoffice building, which adorn and
beautify our City and contribute to the comfort and convenience of our people, are tributes to the devotion of this
City and the effective work in Congress of the Hon. Rufus E.
Lester. This City, through his tragic death, has sustained
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the loss of a friend and public officer whose services it will
be difficult for her to replace, and to the hearts of our citizens who knew him intimately there has come an abiding
sense of personal loss, which will cease only with life itself;
therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, That as a tribute to the memory of the Hon.
Bufus E. Lester, a page of the minutes of Council be set
apart, on which shall be inscribed the words:
"BUFUS EZEKIEL LESTEB,
Born December 12, 1837.
Died June 16, 1906,
He was a faithful servant of the people and true to every
trust."
Be it further resolved, That as evidencing our high regard
for his bereaved widow and expressing, in the emptiness of
words, the grief and sorrow we share with her in the loss of
her beloved husband, a certified copy of these resolutions be
transmitted to her.
HEEMAN MYEBS, Mayor.
F. M. OLIVER, Alderman.
E. A. M. SCHBODER, Alderman.
Adopted July 6,1906.
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LandAreas Under Sidewalks to Be Used by Property
Owners. Bill to Be Submitted.
Resolution by Committee of the "Whole
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the local law, caption
of which has been advertised, to empower the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Savannah, to authorize and permit
areas of land under sidewalks, from property line to curb
line, to be excavated and used by owners of abutting property for such purposes, under such terms, conditions, and
regulations, and upon such considerations as may be prescribed by Council, and to authorize granting by this municipal corporaion to such abutters of such subteranean areas,
in the nature of equitable easements in fee, is in all respects
approved, and the City Attorney is directed to draw the
bill in accordance with said caption and transmit same to
the Legislature.
Further resolved, That the senator of the first district
and the representatives of this County are requested to press
this bill to speedy passage.
Adopted July 18, 1906.
LandOffering Same for Sale.
Resolution by Committee on City Lots and Opening
Streets
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the marshal be instructed to offer at public outcry before the court house on
the next public sales day the northeast part of lot 34 and
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the northern parts of lots 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41, Gumming Ward, and northwest part of 37, Reppard Ward, in
the City of Savannah, and that the minimum price of 40
cents per square foot for inside lots and 50 cents per square
foot for corner lots be placed on said lots.
Ordinance passed August 15, 1906.
LandCondemnation of.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That so much of the land
of Fannie M. Green, of Savannah, Ga., or of whomsoever may
be the owner of the land hereinafter described, as is needed
for the extension and opening of Burroughs street and Thirtyfifth street in the City of Savannah, Ga., be, and the same is
hereby, condemned; the said land consisting of the western
portion of lot numbered thirty-seven (37) in section seventeen (17) in Law Ward, the said western portion being
necessary for the opening of Burroughs street, and being
about a rectangular parallelogram in shape, twenty-one and
three-tenths (21.3) feet wide on its southern end, twenty-two
and seven-tenths (22.7) feet wide on its northern end, and
ninety-eight and four-tenths (98.4) feet long on its western
and eastern sides, embracing two thousand one hundred and
sixty-four and eight-tenths (2,164.8) square feet, and further
consisting of the southeast portion of said lot numbered
thirty-seven (37), necessary for the opening of Thirty-fifth
street, being almost a rectangular parallelogram in shape,
and being on its southern line sixteen and seven-tenths
(16.7) feet wide, and on its eastern and western sides fortyone and two-tenths (41.2) feet long, extending from the
southern line of said lot numbered thirty-seven (37) north-
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ward, the southeastern portion embracing six hundred and
sixty-seven and four-tenths (667.4) square feet; all as shown
upon a plat depicting the the portions of said lot numbered
thirty-seven (37) necessary for the extension and opening
of said streets, made by J. W. Howard, Assistant City Engineer.
To this end, Mr. Jacob S. Collins of the City of Savannah,
pa., is hereby appointed the assessor on the part of the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, under the
provisions of law touching condemnation. It is further
Resolved, That due notice of these resolutions be served
by certified copy thereof, on the said Fannie M. Green, or
upon such person as may be the owner of said land sought
to be condemned, to the end that such owner may select an
assessor, and that further proceedings be had in conformity
with the statute, in such cases made and provided, under
the direction of the City Attorney.
Adopted August 29, 1906.
Street CarsSeparation of Races.
By Alderman Grayson
Whereas, the settled policy of the laws of the State of
Georgia requires the separation of the white and colored
races when passengers on railway, dummy, and electric street
cars; and,
Whereas, such separation of the races 'is, in the judgment
of this Board, necessary and requisite for the security, health,
peace, and good government of the City of Savannah and
the inhabitants thereof; therefore, be it
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Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Superintendent of
Police is hereby instructed to use the police force in seeing
that the State law as provided in section 528, volume 3, of the
Code of Georgia of 1895, is enforced within the police jurisdictional limits of the City of Savannah, and that said police
force be required to make cases in the State courts against
all violators of this law.
Adopted September 12, 1906.
LandPurchase of.
By Committee of the Whole
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled. That the offer of Robert M.
Hicks to sell to the City twenty-two lots of land in Kelly
Ward, eleven of said lots facing Bolton street, being bounded
on the east by Ott street, on the west by Harmon street, and
on the south by a lane, and eleven fronting on Waldburg
street, being bounded on the east by Ott street, on the west
by Harmon street, and on the north by a lane, twenty of said
lots being 30 feet wide and 115 feet deep and twenty of said
lots being 31 feet wide and 115 feet deep, at and for the price
of $13,500, to be paid $500 cash and the balance in equal payments in two, three, and four years, for which Mayor's notes
shall be given drawing 5 per cent interest, payable annually,
the house now standing on said land to be removed by the
said Robert M. Hicks at his own expense within ninety days
from date of deed, titles to be satisfactory to the City
Attorney.
Adopted September 26, 1906.
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WaterworksElectrict Plant.
By Committee of the "Whole
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That upon the coming in of
a report from the Committee on Water, recommending the
installation at the old water works of a turbine electricaldriven pump and motor, with all the appurtenances thereto,
in duplicate, so as to make connection with the wells at the
old waterworks as well as with the river, and provide for
additional supply of water, that this whole matter be referred
back to the Mayor and Committee on Water with power to
make selection of such pump and motor, with appurtenances,
as the said Mayor and Committee may seem best; and be it
further
Resolved, That the said Mayor and Committee on Water
are authorized to formulate a contract with such parties as
may be selected to furnish such pump and motor and appurtenances, and to proceed to have such auxiliary plant installed as soon as practicable; and to that end the contract on the
part of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah
shall be executed by the Mayor, representing said municipality, attested by the Clerk of Council, with the seal of the
City attached.
Resolved, further, That any and all minor details connected with the carrying out of this plan is hereby entrusted
to the said Mayor and Committee on Water.
Adopted October 16, 1906.
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Streets and LanesBill to Authorize Closing and Dedicating
for Park Purposes.
By the Committee of the Whole
Whereas, the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah on July 14,1906, bought a certain tract of land in section
nine (9), Waring Ward, in Savannah, Ga., from the Eealty
Improvemnt and Trust Company, recently by ordinance dedicated as a park, called Dixon Park, through which a lane
runs east and west; and,
Wheras, said municipal corporation has also bought from
Robert M. Hicks a certain tract of land in Kelly Ward, in
Savannah, lying between Bolton, Ott, Waldburg, and Hartnon streets (through which a lane runs east and west),
which is proposed to be dedicated as a park; it is
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled:
1. That said lanes should be made use of for park purposes and be part and parcel of said respective parks.
2. The publication of the notice of a local bill made
October 18, 1906, by the City Attorney on behalf of this
municipality, is approved in all respects, and he is directed
to draw a bill to be entitled as in said caption set out, empowering the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah
to close up said lanes, and directing it to use the same for
park purposes, providing also that a portion of said lane
in the park in Waring Ward shall be used in laying out a
street or entrance way to said park; to obtain the certificate
of the Ordinary, with a copy of the Savannah Press in which
the notice is published, and turn over all of said documents
to one of the representatives from this county in the General
Assembly, to be introduced at the next session.
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3. The senator from the first district and the representatives from Chatham County are respectfully requested
to use their best endeavors to have said local act passed, and
the Clerk of Council is directed to turn over four certified
copies of these resolutions to the City Attorney to be delivered by him to said senator and representatives.
Adopted October 19, 1906.
PoliceRetirement of John Christian.
By Committee on Police
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the communication
from Charles Garfankel, Superintendent of Police, recommending that John Christian of the police force of this City
be placed on the retired roll because of physical disabilities,
which unfit him for duty and the certificate of the Health
Officer complying with the ordinance in such cases made and
provided, is concurred in by Council; it is further
Resolved, That said John Christian is directed to be
placed on the retired roll of the police force, and he shall
receive an annual pension during his life time of a sum
equivalent to one-half (y2 ) of the full salary of said Christian ; that is to say, an annual pension of four hundred and
fifty ($450) dollars, payable monthly in equal installments,
out of the City Treasury.
"'
Adopted November 7, 1906.
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LandPurchase of.
By the Committe on City Lots and Opening Streets
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the offer of Charles
Seiler to sell to the City certain land through Teynac farm,
lot numbered two (2), between East Broad street and Waters
avenue for the projection of Reynolds, Atlantic, Paulsen.
Harmon, and Ott streets to the north and south of Seiler
avenue, said lands embracing a total of forty-three thousand,
four hundred and forty-three and two-tenths square feet
(43,443.2), at the rate of four and three-fourths (4%) cents
per square foot, is hereby accepted. Payments to be mado
by Mayor's notes bearing interest from date at the rate of
five (5) per cent per annum, payable annually, said notes
being as follows: In equal amounts payable two and three
years after date, notes to be executed by Mayor for the corporation in usual form. Titles to be satisfactory to the City
Attorney.
Adopted November 7, 1906.
ParksNaming of Damn Athletic Field.
By Alderman Grayson
"Whereas, the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, on the 16th of July, 1906, bought from J. H. Estill,
C. H. Dorsett, Albert Wylly, B. H. Levy, and George H.
Miller, a tract of land located on Dale avenue, in Chatham
County, Georgia, and embracing, as shown in deed made by
said grantors, seventy-eight and four-tenths (78.4) acres,
more or less, being fully and minutely described in said
deed, which is recorded in the Clerk's office of the Superior
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Court of Chatham County, Book of Deeds 9 G's, folio 393,
to which reference is made for greater particularity; and,
Whereas, Council does not desire, at this time, to dedicate
this tract as a park, but wishes to perpetuate the name of
Jefferson Davis in Savannah; therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That said tract of land, or
so much of the same as Council may not dispose of for other
purposes, shall be held as a place of recreation and amusement, where sports and games, such as horse racing, baseball,
football, tennis, and other outdoor sports and amusements
can be had, and the said tract, or so much thereof as shall
be devoted to such purposes shall be hereafter known and
designated as "Jeff Davis Recreation Grounds," and the
same may be let to others, or used by the people of Savannah
for the purposes herein mentioned, or in any other manner
as Council may prescribe.
Alderman Oliver moved to amend this resolution by striking out in the second clause of the preamble, the words
"Jefferson Davis," and to insert in lieu thereof the following, "P. D. Daffin;" and also to strike out in the resolution
proper the words, "Jeff Davis Recreation Grounds," and
to insert in lieu thereof these words: "Daffin Athletic Field,"
which amendment was adopted and the resolution as thus
amended was then adopted, reading as follows:
Whereas, the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, on the 16th of July, 1906, bought of J. H. Estill, C. H.
Dorsett, Albert Wylly, B. H. Levy, and George H. Miller, a
tract of land located on Dale avenue, in Chatham County,
Georgia, and embracing, as shown in deed made by said
grantors, seventy-eight and four-tenths (78.4) acres, more
or less; being fully and minutely described in said deed,
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which is recorded in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court
of Chatham County, in Book of Deeds 9 G's, folio 393, to
which reference is made for greater particularity; and,
Whereas, Council does not desire, at this time, to dedicate this tract as a park, but wishes to perpetuate the name
of P. D. Baffin, in Savannah: therefore be it
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That said tract of land, or
so much of the same as Council may not dispose of for other
purposes, shall be held as a place of recreation and amusement, where sports and games, such as horse racing, baseball,
football, tennis, and other outdoor sports and amusements
can be had, and the said tract, or as much thereof as shall be
devoted to such purposes, shall be hereafter known and designated as "Baffin Athletic Field," and the same may be let to
others or used by the people of Savannah for the purposes
herein mentioned or in any other manner as Council may
prescribe.
Ordinance passed November 7, 1906.
LandPurchase of.
By the Committee on Opening Streets and City Lots
Eesolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the offer of Merchants
and Mechanics Land Company to sell to the City a strip of
land sufficient for the opening and widening of Anderson
street to its full limit as prescribed by the City map, from
the east side of Waters avenue to the eastern limit of the
land of said company, commonly known as Eastland, at and
for the price of two and one-half (2%) cents per square foot,
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is accepted; payment to be made for the foregoing by notes
of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, to be
executed by the Mayor or Acting Mayor, attested by Clerk
of Council, with seal affixed, due three, four, and five years
after date, bearing interest from date at the rate of five (5)
per cent per annum, payable annually. Titles to be satisfactory to the City Attorney.
Adopted November 21, 1906.
repealed.
Death of Col. W. J. Winn.
Resolution by Alderman James M. Dixon
Whereas, the late Col. "W. J. Winn for twenty years
served the City of Savannah faithfully in the capacity of
City Engineer, giving to the municipality in that important
position the benefit of his long previous experience and high
professional ability, ever keeping before him the interests of
the public; and
Whereas, both in his official and personal character he
ever sought to maintain a high standard, warmly attaching
himself to all with whom he was brought in contact, while
never swerving from his high sense of duty; therefore it is
befitting that this Council should express its sincere appreciation of his faithful administration of the office entrusted
to him; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Mayor and Aldermen, in Council
assembled, do hereby express their sense of the loss the
municipality has sustained in the death of Colonel Winn,
and that in recognition of his long and valuable services his
salary be continued to his widow for the period of two
monthsDecember and Januaryand that this resolution be
MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 899
authority for the payment of the sum of $200 for each of
these months to her, without regard to the payment of the
same salary to Colonel "Winn's official successor.
Adopted December 5, 1906.
LandPurchase of.
Resolution by Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
Resolved, That the offer of Mrs. Branch, acting through
Messrs. Adams & Hull, agents, to sell to the City of Savannah the western portion of lots 45 and 46, Estill sub-division,
Estill Ward, as needed for the opening and extension of
Barnard street, said lots embracing 1,350 square feet, at the
price of thirty cents per square foot, is hereby accepted.
Terms cash. Titles to be satisfactory to City Attorney.
Adopted December 5, 1906.
LandExchange of.
By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
Whereas, the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah own the strip of land 38.4 feet, more or less, in depth,
and 38.42 feet, more or less, in width, lying between lots
69 Barry Ward and Thirty-second street, in the City of
Savannah, said parcel of land being a part of what was
formerly St. Paul street; and,
Whereas, the City has no further use for the same for
street purposes; be it, therefore,
Resolved, That the Mayor of the City of Savannah be,
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and he is hereby, authorized to execute a deed of exchange
between the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah
and Bartow Denton, the owner of said lot 69, whereby the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall convey
to the said Bartow Denton, the above-described parcel of
land, and whereby the said Bartow Denton, in consideration
therefor, shall convey to the Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of Savannah, the rear portion of lot 69, lying between
the northern line of lots 56 and 57 Barry Ward, and to the
lane at the rear of said lot 69, so that said lot 69, as owned
by said Bartow Denton, after this deed of exchange is made,
will extend from the northern boundary of Thirty-second
street, to the north line of said lot 57; that is to say, to have
a depth of 95.6 feet. Titles to be satisfactory to the City
Attorney.
Adopted December 5, 1906.
Georgia InfirmaryRelative to Removal.
Kesolution by the Committee of the Whole
Whereas, the continuance of the Georgia Infirmary in its
present location depreciates the value of real estate in its
vicinity and retards the growth and improvement of one of
the most attractive sections of the City of Savannah; and
Whereas, any cause which depreciates the value of real
estate within the City inflicts financial loss upon our citizens
and at the same time lessens the tax revenue of the City
government; therefore be it
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled,
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1. That the appropriation of funds made by this Council
for the support and maintenance of said infirmary in the
year 1907 is made solely because of the absolute necessity
that requisite hospital facilities be provided for the use of
the colored population of our City and not because this
Council favors the continued maintenance of said infirmary
in its present location.
2. That this Council urges upon the board of trustees
of said institution the advisability of taking immediate steps
looking to the establishment of said infirmary at some point
in close proximity to the residential sections of the colored
population of this City, so that when the tax budget for the
year 1908 is to be considered by the incoming Council the
trustees of said infirmary may be in a favorable position to
request, and the Council to grant, more liberal appropriations to provide hospital facilities for the accommodation of
the colored population of the City of Savannah.
Adopted December 19, 1906.
LandPurchase of.
By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets
Eesolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That the offer of Haines &
Hunter, agents for the owner of the land hereinafter
described, to sell to the City of Savannah a portion of the
"Quint Tract" in said City, in Millen lot numbered four (4),
and west'part of lot numbered three (3), now in Grayson
and Harmon Wards, for the purpose of opening and extension
of Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth,
Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Harmon streets, the said area
of land footing up one hundred and eighty-four thousand
five hundred and sixty-nine (184,569) square feet, at and for
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the price of five (5) cents per square foot, is hereby accepted,
payments to be made as follows: In equal payments, two,
three, four, and five years, with interest from date at 5 per
cent per annum, payable annually, Mayor's notes to be given,
executed by Mayor in usual form. Titles to be satisfactory
to the City Attorney.
Adopted December 1&, 1906.